Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:57:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime Message-ID: <200903311657.n2VGvLE8010101@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0903310247o356fdfb8mdc8cd2c3621366ee@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>: > > > > IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all > > Why? Google "background fsck damage". I was bitten by it myself, and I also recommend to turn background fsck off. If your disks are large and you can't afford the fsck time, consider using ZFS, which has a lot of benefits besides not requiring fsck. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd With Perl you can manipulate text, interact with programs, talk over networks, drive Web pages, perform arbitrary precision arithmetic, and write programs that look like Snoopy swearing.
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