Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:06 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "JM" <jmartin37@speakeasy.net>, "Brian Fundakowski Feldman" <green@freebsd.org> Cc: Niki Denev <ndenev@icdsoft.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: background fsck can be dangerous! Message-ID: <00e101c57d7d$b4ae1a20$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <200506291704.50185.ndenev@icdsoft.com> <059901c57cb4$9a366220$7f06000a@int.mediasurface.com> <20050630060612.GF1074@green.homeunix.org> <42C3F7F3.809@speakeasy.net>
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From: "JM" <jmartin37@speakeasy.net>
>>You should turn write caching off on your drives.
>>
>>
> and in addition to that... you can enable a foreground fsck at boot
> which might be the better option if boot times aren't an issue.
Normally they wouldn't but on some of our machines there
is a large amount of disk 1.TAB + and foreground checking takes
a year and a day :(
/me looks forward to a journaling FS
The FS is the one area that really lets FreeBSD down in my
opinion. Wish I had 1. the time and 2. the knowledge to help
out with dev in the area but unfortunately I have neither :(
Steve / K
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