From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 4 20:46:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A597637B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 20:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tadayuki@mediaone.net) Received: from photoniii (h0005025b549e.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.67.188]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f453jq800846; Fri, 4 May 2001 23:45:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 23:56:06 -0400 From: Tadayuki OKADA To: Chris BeHanna Cc: stable Subject: Re: soft update should be default Message-Id: <20010504235606.231639f6.tadayuki@mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20010504213412.3ee36a4f.tadayuki@mediaone.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.64 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 May 2001 22:39:51 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Chris BeHanna wrote: > > I've heard that it always keeps consistency. > > So you can skip fsck after the crash. > > #I don't know the detail, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong. > > I've had a number of crashes recently while trying to get my new > Thunderbird box up and running with the disk from my old box. I have > softupdates enabled on two partitions, yet they still fsck on the way > back up after a crash (and, at 18GB each, it takes awhile). Next time > I play games, I'm mounting them read-only first! Well... I knew I was wrong. It seems that that feature is only in CURRENT. And you can't omit fsck, it will be done in the background after the partition is mounted. -- Tadayuki OKADA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message