From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 08:54:43 2003 Return-Path: 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 2B13B37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25EA43F75 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:54:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5IFsZhR030455 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:54:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5IFsXRp000923 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:54:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5IFsXoT006948; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:54:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5IFsSON006947; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:54:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:54:28 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Juan Rodriguez Hervella Message-ID: <20030618155427.GR3626@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <200306181654.45249.jrh@it.uc3m.es> <20030618153935.GP3626@cicely12.cicely.de> <200306181751.01998.jrh@it.uc3m.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306181751.01998.jrh@it.uc3m.es> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.1-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Bernd Walter cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: Why doesn't background fsck work ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:54:43 -0000 On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:51:00PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > > Hello!: > > > > > > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime > > > I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to > > > make a hard reboot. > > > (I think I will fix the Xs problem this night at home) > > > > > > But I've got another weird problem. :) > > > > > > The fsck of my partitions is always made on the foregroud, > > > although I've heard about something like a delayed/background > > > file system checker. > > > > > > Why is it always made on the foreground ? > > > > No softupdates enabled? > > yes, you've got it ! > > I haven't got softupdates enabled, but I didn't want to enable it, > because I've heard that it isn't 100% reliable and I didn't want to lose > data.... Softupdates works reliable from what I can tell. Snapshots might have some issues and background fsck uses snapshots. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de