Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:57:14 -0800 From: Scott Oertel <freebsd@scottevil.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: skipping fsck with soft-updates enabled Message-ID: <45A3C96A.6030307@scottevil.com>
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I am wondering what kind of problems would occur, besides lost space, if after a system crash a fsck is skipped. According to the documentation, with soft-updates enabled, the file system would be consistant, there would just be lost resources to be recovered which I am assuming can be safely done at a later time to avoid long periods of downtime during peek hours. "Soft updates control the ordering of filesystem updates such that the only inconsistencies in the on-disk representation are that free blocks and inodes may be claimed as "in use" in the on-disk bitmaps when they are really unused." So, would there be other issues if fsck wasn't ran right away after a system crash? Thanks, Scott
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