On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:28:07PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Joe McGuckin wrote:
>
> > The big win with a journaling FS is when you have to reboot the system.
> >
> > With Softupdates, you still have to fsck. On a large FS (say half a
> > terabyte) that can take hours.
>
> No you don't. Your filesystem will be in a consistent state except for
> blocks which are marked used but are not, so you can fsck in the
> background at the expense of not having all of your free space available
> at startup.
>
> Having said that, I don't know that this procedure has been well tested in
> practise, so you're advised to use caution when testing it :-)
I didn't even know that background fsck was supported at all. I
remember hearing Kirk talk about it as a future feature at FreeBSD CON
last year, but I havn't heard anything about it since. How do you
use it?
Thanks,
-brian
p.s. Forgive me if this is well documented in -CURRENT. At the moment,
the latest version of FreeBSD that I have available to me is 4.1-RC
(cvsup from July 21) and I can't find any mention of it.
--
Brian O'Shea
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