From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 9:11:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3AE814FFA for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.gdl.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA39772; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:10:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <01f701bf4d68$b75b1340$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Stan Brown" , "Free BSD Questions list" References: <199912222000.MAA24053@netcom.com> Subject: RE: fsck and large filesystems. Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:11:13 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, It is supposed that if you are using softupdates, you will not have to run fsck again, but its still enabled by default, just to make sure that everything its ok (by now), this its a quote from a talk with Mr. Kirk Mckusick at FreeBSDCon. Merry Xmas Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Stan Brown To: Free BSD Questions list Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 2:00 PM Subject: fsck and large filesystems. > OK, the Berkley Fast Filesystem has served us well for almost, wgat 20 > years now. However it appears that we have reached the point where > something else is needed. > > I recently built a machine with a 13G disk. Most of the disk is > dedicated to /usr. Once I improperly shut the system down. The > resulting fsck took forever!. And the partition was mostly empty! > > Any sugestions on alternate technologies available under FreeBSD? > softupdates does not, at first glance, seem to be the fix here. If I am > understanding it coreclty, then it appears that i could actually make > things wose, in this respect, although it appears to offer higher > runtime performance. > > Or am I all wet on this? > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer > (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message