From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 00:09:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5F51065672 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:09:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC528FC12 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:09:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c28so1144ana.57 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:09:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9fipPnfEPqVUzcc4MBdn5WiKQRgaRohVThClhDS+6BU=; b=CKExsDaFOcH830PX6F+ekvVxjZ75kCazvzIrEAFoNlL+MKdb5CQG6HbuIGl+ss7EnkVrUgM6LBlm/iiFzOoLnsUfyAkd06xyWUMTAgPbX65QEE4CFbeiQLWIIUnlbegy2Jy01XZksjtp1618ipr413iMDvKWxfRhJXhDf+jEXPE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k4rVu8YqvPD3t/LCN3SCDJaVJFBNCo1QcX095BKc1TP+T6oL7VhXuXoXs+bsGWHCZHQ+nBU7/VCMT5ThDCY6OSJbFM4jR8Mvf2xVt15GqIoSQCqcXqbKLLzoYlxCAMFN8KnrxMew7RUqUUxssUWYs9hN+VCnBZzGDyo5Pz//rp4= Received: by 10.100.12.1 with SMTP id 1mr4906980anl.43.1206662973336; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.111.1 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:09:33 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Danny Pansters" In-Reply-To: <200803280029.08136.danny@ricin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47EBA3AB.40307@infracaninophile.co.uk> <200803280029.08136.danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about file system checks X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:09:34 -0000 On 27/03/2008, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2008 14:45:49 Marian Hettwer wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +0000, Matthew Seaman > > > > wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > > > Jared Carlson wrote: > > >> Hi I have a question about startup scripts for BSD distributions. > > >> Can you turn off the file system check that occurs every 30 boots, > > >> etc? I recall this being the case on a BSD platform, although my Mac > > >> OS X doesn't (to my knowledge) do a file system check that often at > > >> all. > > > > > > You are thinking of the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem. > > > > Although this is OT, does anybody have a clue why ext2/ext3 filesystems > > behave like that? > > I wouldn't like to trust a filesystem which thinks a fsck is worth it, > > although it always was a clean shutdown. > > Any clue?! :) > > > ext2/3 is mounted async by default, I reckon most linux distros expect some fs > damage to occur because of that over time maybe. Or it's a relic of the days > when that was necessary, maybe it's not really necessary now anymore. It's just periodic maintenance which is nearly always set. No more necessary than running a virus check. UFS/FFS seems to do a better job of not messing up, although, if you use fat32 as the standard, ext[23] is nearly faultless as well. -- --