From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 09:09:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DB41065681 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.bzerk.org [82.95.223.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23D38FC17 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:09:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m619AmkC031620; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:10:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m619Amsf031619; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:10:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:10:48 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Jim Message-ID: <20080701091048.GA31499@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Jim , Roland Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <80f4f2b20806300401x71483882x8e9a6cf919f1ff9@mail.gmail.com> <20080630073059.be11304d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <80f4f2b20806300930p67ca1fd5xf9ad59d16889df36@mail.gmail.com> <20080630170400.GB65282@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <80f4f2b20806301212n1bf6137bq75f40464212c2304@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20806301212n1bf6137bq75f40464212c2304@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Roland Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem information 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: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:09:24 -0000 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:12:59PM -0400, Jim typed: > > I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an > outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving, > and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why > were files that are read, but not written, being lost? I can > understand losing files that are being written, but if there's a file > that has bene written several restarts ago, not written to thereafter, > and has been fine ever since, why is it being lost now? Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to, even when they are just being read: the access time is updated (unless you mount the fs with the noatime flag). Ruben