From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 11:25:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF15106566C for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:25:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-exrelay1.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-EXRELAY1.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98368FC08 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:25:08 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,557,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="285454326" Received: from zivmaildisp1.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.85]) by zivm-relay1.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 14 Oct 2009 13:25:07 +0200 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id 2B7DC1B07BC; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: some issues with 9-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:25:09 -0000 since my first question got answers, here are answers to questions 2 and 3: 2: there's a problem report here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108968 this still exists in CURRENT 3: i believe it takes so long to do fsck on a device in background mode because a snapshot has to be taken first. i decided i'd rather wait for a few minutes instead of running a system for half an hour which is incredibly slow. i simply added the following to /etc/rc.conf: background_fsck="NO" cheers. alex