Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:42:45 -0500 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ? Message-ID: <20060314044240.C6F8543D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4416483E.70600@ywave.com>
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=20 >=20 > Ensel Sharon wrote: > > I have disabled background fsck in my /etc/rc.conf with: > >=20 > > background_fsck=3D"no" > >=20 > > But I am curious - what does this mean for the system if the system=20 > > crashes ? > >=20 > > Does this mean that the system will wait for all non root=20 > partitions=20 > > to fully fsck before coming up into multi-user mode ? > >=20 > > OR > >=20 > > Does it mean the system will boot up quickly into=20 > multi-user mode, but=20 > > the non-root partitions will just not be mounted and/or=20 > usable until I=20 > > fsck them by hand ? > >=20 > > thanks. >=20 > The former, as I can say with ample experience this morning.=20 > (stupid USB > panic) >=20 > HTH, > Micah I find both ways useless. If fsck background starts after a crash it = literally slows down the machine to a halt rendering it unusable. If enable fsck to check the system prior to mounting device, it will = take at least 15-30 minutes for it to complete (in the event of a hard = crash). Which also translates to a downtime. disabling fsck on the long run is a bad choice too as eventually the = system files will become corrupt beyond repair. What is the solution here ? Thx, Tamouh
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