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Subject: Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS
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> Can you back this up? I cannot recall having ever rendered a FreeBSD
> system unbootable due to UFS/UFS2 problems after a power failure or
> crash. I once had a problem with snapshots that made background fsck
> fail and crash the system, but it was fixable by booting single user and
> running fsck manually. This was a couple of years ago, and I think the
> problem has since been fixed.

I've had several cases that needed manual fsck. After I turned off
background fsck, the problems stopped. These days background_fsck="NO"
is a standard part of my rc.conf.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no