Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Dec 18), Mike Bristow said: > > I suspect that the background fsck[1] that's available in FreeBSD-current > > fits the bill just as well as JFS or XFS - and I'll also bet that it'll > > be available in a FreeBSD-release before I'd trust data to a port of > > JFS or XFS. > > The problems with a background fsck is you still have to run fsck, > which can take 10 minutes on a large volume when it's idle, and who
By the way the journaling filesystems don't neccessary guarantee that you won't need fsck: for example, if VXFS crashes at a particularly bad moment, it will require you to do "fsck -o full" which is as slow as the fsck on traditional UFS. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
