From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 22 11:58:37 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 EAE4F37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:58:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B4343E4A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:58:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18bR0w-0006K6-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:58:22 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru ([193.124.215.97] ident=root) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18bR0v-0006Je-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:58:22 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (fjoe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0MJwFRV001711; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:58:15 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: (from fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0MJwEEF001710; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:58:14 +0600 (NS) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:58:14 +0600 From: Max Khon To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Jan Srzednicki , Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: background fsck did not create lost+found Message-ID: <20030123015813.A1653@iclub.nsu.ru> References: <200301221813.h0MIDUTF040121@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20030123005315.A97248@iclub.nsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:43:37PM -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 X-Envelope-To: drosih@rpi.edu, winfried@student.agh.edu.pl, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG 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 hi, there! On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:43:37PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > > Would that be a big problem to allow some fsck option not > > > > > to erase all these softupdates-pending inodes, but to put > > > > > them in lost+found as usual? > > > > > > > > It certainly couldn't be done with the background fsck, > > > > because background fsck works on a snapshot and not the > > > > running filesystem; thus, it cannot make any allocations -- it > > > > can only deallocate things. > > > > > > Still, in case you know some of your important files can be lost, > > > you can boot the system to single user and run foreground fsck. > > > >this is not an option if the system was rebooted because of power > >loss or kernel panic > > Can't you just set the rc.conf option to not-do the background fsck? I can but the whole purpose of background fsck (faster startup times) will be lost. /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message