From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 18 15:12:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB53D37B402; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g0INBvk05115; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:11:57 -0800 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:11:57 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brandon D. Valentine" , penglish@hydro.washington.edu, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two RAID questions Message-ID: <20020118151156.A4612@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020118140049.A87081-100000@mail.allcaps.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020118140049.A87081-100000@mail.allcaps.org>; from bsder@allcaps.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:07:52PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:07:52PM -0800, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > I looked at the CVS repository today and didn't note a tag on the fsck > code for -STABLE. >=20 > 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). >=20 > If it's not included, what are the issues preventing it from getting > folded backward? It isn't included because it's not stable yet. It's improving, but in my experience it still causes problems. I rather doubt it will be MFC'd. File system stability is about as important as it gets so significantly more shake out is critical before inflicting background fsck on users. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8SKu8XY6L6fI4GtQRAvK2AKDicNkpnnHWlrqctVh39INyytjBEACdE+Xm D9d4hCQLH/M0YLFT4VdGebk= =A5mV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message