Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:47:48 +0100 From: "Rickard Dahlstrand" <rd@tilde.se> To: "Gilad Rom" <gilad_bsd@romat.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem Message-ID: <002501c3ddc1$47ca4210$8b01010a@nyalaptopen> References: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen> <400A7352.7020101@romat.com>
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Thanks Gilad, I was hoping on a solution that can work on 4.9. Can you provide me with some problems that I might introduce? Rickard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilad Rom" <gilad_bsd@romat.com> To: "Rickard Dahlstrand" <rd@tilde.se> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:51 PM Subject: Re: Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem > Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a computer that will have it's power removed quite often. In other word It will not unmount the file system. What kind of implications does this have in the long term? > > > > I have discovered that the start-up takes much longer because of having to clean the file system. Is there a way to prevent this and what harm can cutting the power have on the system? > > > > I know of some installations that use read-only mounting. Is it possible to mount / RO and /etc and /var RW? Will that speed up the boot process? > > > > Best Regards, Rickard. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > 5.2 has background fsck - I don't know if its going to fix all of the > problems that cutting the power is going to introduce, but Its going > to speed up your boot sequence for sure. > > Gilad. > >
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