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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:17:05 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@allcaps.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Background fsck'ing
Message-ID:  <20020118141705.N13686@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020118140829.C87193-100000@mail.allcaps.org>; from bsder@allcaps.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:10:44PM -0800
References:  <20020118140829.C87193-100000@mail.allcaps.org>

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* Andrew P. Lentvorski <bsder@allcaps.org> [020118 14:10] wrote:
> My apologies for being an idiot and hitting ^X before I meant to ...
> 
> I looked at the CVS repository today and didn't note a tag on the fsck
> code for -STABLE.
> 
> Is background fsck'ing included in -STABLE?  The large fsck times for
> multi-GB and TB RAID servers is becoming an impediment to using FreeBSD as
> a server (where BSD has traditionally been strong).
> 
> If it's not included, what are the issues preventing it from getting
> folded backward?

It requires extensive backporting for snapshot support.  The current
background fsck is experimental and can cause problems for people,
it's still somewhat in development.

-Alfred

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