From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 15:36:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448B116A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:36:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@incubus.de) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D510443D46 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:36:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@incubus.de) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (p54AAB013.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.170.176.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C22233617; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 17:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (mkb@localhost.mkbuelow.net [127.0.0.1]) by drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j71FaU9C001153; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 17:36:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mkb@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net) Message-Id: <200508011536.j71FaU9C001153@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> From: Matthias Buelow To: Xin LI In-Reply-To: Message from Xin LI of "Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:48:04 +0800." <20050801144804.GA82722@frontfree.net> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.84; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:36:30 +0200 Sender: mkb@incubus.de Cc: Marc Olzheim , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: background fsck, softupdates & inconsistent state on disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:36:36 -0000 Xin LI writes: >Are you using IDE disk driver? If so, having "hw.ata.wc=0" in your >/boot/loader.conf would help the SoftUpdates situation. This won't help in the case when the kernel crashes; this (ugly) workaround only helps at a power loss. mkb.