From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 9 02:57:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7925C1065670 for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 02:57:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bobbyjwalker@live.com) Received: from blu0-omc4-s28.blu0.hotmail.com (blu0-omc4-s28.blu0.hotmail.com [65.55.111.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF1F8FC0A for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 02:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU0-SMTP88 ([65.55.111.135]) by blu0-omc4-s28.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 8 May 2010 19:57:38 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [216.150.115.3] X-Originating-Email: [bobbyjwalker@live.com] Message-ID: Received: from [10.10.10.101] ([216.150.115.3]) by BLU0-SMTP88.blu0.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 8 May 2010 19:57:37 -0700 From: Bobby Walker Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 21:57:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 May 2010 02:57:38.0152 (UTC) FILETIME=[620EEE80:01CAEF23] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: File system 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: Sun, 09 May 2010 02:57:39 -0000 On May 8, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Hello All, > I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean > shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. >=20 > When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. >=20 > Is there any way to have FreeBSD run on a better file system that wont = crap > out on me everytime I do and unclean shutdown? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 I am far from an expert on this topic, but under what situation is it = good to take any OS down suddenly? Is this an unavoidable event of some = sort? If this is a timed event, that happens on a regular basis, then you = should be able to issue a timed shutdown prior to that so that the = operating system goes down cleanly. Any file system that is taken down abruptly, repeatedly will see = degradation. Databases and open files, not to mention any data that is = being written from/to the hard disk are all meant to be taken down and = cleared out properly. I'm not certain that a different file system is the solution, it might = just be a band-aid on the greater problem, which is eliminating the = sudden power loss that's simulated by shutting off a VM. -- Bobby=