You know what, dont worry about it. Thanks for the help all! You have been very helpful.
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ansar Mohammed <ans...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Bobby, >> >> The VM is in my lab environemnt. I have many flavours of Windows, Linux >> and >> FreeBSD. FreeBSD is my firewall running PF. >> > > >> >> I have rebooted my entire environment hundreds of times, and non of my >> Windows or Linux VMs will complain or boot into a repair/single user mode. >> >> The background to this problem is because the FreeBSD root filesystem >> (UFS) >> is not journaled and for some reason I cannot set my root partition to be >> UFS+SoftUpdates. >> > > Well I'd say that's clearly not the problem since so many of us don't have > your issues. SU is disabled on / for a reason. I highly doubt you actually > want to enable this, but you can if you adjust the FS when it isn't mounted > eg boot from fixit cd. > >> >> At any rate, we are in the year 2010, most modern operating systems and >> databases and able to survive an unclean shutdown without booting into >> single user mode and file system/data corruption. >> > > FreeBSD has defaulted to background checking on SU FS's for the better part > of 10 years. What version are you running? What data corruption did you > have and what does databases have to do with it? Also DB's that are > unexpectly killed can have consistency problems regardless of what FS it > writes to and OS happens to be running it. > > >> >> I love FreeBSD, and have been a user since 2.x >> > > User as in you saw it running a couple times? > > So on to your actual issue instead of all the bs, what does your > /etc/rc.conf say? Specifically, what is the boot failing on? > > If you really want the disk/partition/slice journaled, you can do so with > gjournal or ZFS offers an even better copy-on-write system. If the install > is only running a fw, the zfs is probably overkill though. > > > > > -- > Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
