From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 28 7:23:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995E437B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E97243F75 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: (qmail 10385 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Jan 2003 15:23:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jan 2003 15:23:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:23:08 +0100 (CET) From: Attila Nagy To: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems? In-Reply-To: <20030128110125.GB78630@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: References: <20030127174127.GD71664@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20030128110125.GB78630@pmp.uni-hannover.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, > 47105 seems to be slightly different from what I saw, because my machine > never paniced; the fsck just hung forever. It depends. My machine hangs, there's no panic. > > I've already written to Kirk McKusick, but it seems that he has a lot > > of work, because I didn't get answer. > Ok, then things are already on their way, I guess. Don't know, but I hope :) > I wonder if it's only the large filesystem that triggers this problem. > Actually I think that my 50GB are not /that/ large, and someone else > should have noticed the problem before. I wonder what's the common in our case, then. > BTW: As mentioned in the PR one workaround is to turn off bg fsck. On > the other hand bg fsck is working fine on smaller filesystems. Is there > a way to turn bg fsck off for just one partition? I don't know any. BTW, the big partitions are those which needs the extra time, so it is very likely that you won't benefit too much from this... ----------[ Free Software ISOs - http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download ]---------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415 (194) cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message