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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 13:12:54 +0100
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On Sunday 09 May 2010 12:54:59 Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> Thank you Bruce and Matthew,
> for your very informed and insightful comments.
>  I read online that this may be fixed in FreeBSD 9 with jeff's UFS
> Journaling patch. Have you guys tried this yet?
> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/

My test where I pressed the reset button was with SU+J: since the journaling 
is built upon SoftUpdates it does nothing to improve reliability, but simply 
exists to remove the need to run fsck on boot.

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Bruce Cran