Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 22:08:12 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: fsck in -current Message-ID: <20040515220258.H920@ganymede.hub.org>
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I'm seriously considering putting 5.x onto my next server, to take advantage of, if nothing else, the reduction in the GIANT LOCK reliance ... one "concern" I have is how fsck works in 5.x ... Right now, on 4.x, I have an fsck running that has been going for ~3hrs now: # date; ps aux | grep fsck Sat May 15 22:04:00 ADT 2004 root 40 99.0 4.5 185756 185796 p0 R+ 6:55PM 164:01.60 fsck -y /dev/da0s1h and is in Phase 4 ... In 5.x, if I'm not mistaken, fsck's are backgrounded on reboot, so that the system comes up faster ... but: a. wouldn't that slow down the fsck itself, since all the processes on the machine would be using CPU/memory? b. how long could fsck run in the background safely ... like, if I rebooted a machine, fsck backgrounded and then all the processes started up, is there a risk involved? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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