Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Just to clarify: running "fsck /" (read-only) in multiuser mode
takes less than a minute. fsck at boot takes approx. 50 times that
long!
...and yes, that difference is not reasonable. Are you using bgfsck
or not...?
Hm, what do you mean?
I'd gladly let my system fsck in background after boot, but it won't
do that on a root partition, as mentioned somewhere else on this thread.
However, apart from that, I've set everything up according to this
wish of mine (i.e. I enabled softupdates and I did not put
background_fsck="NO" in my /etc/rc.conf).
Try turning off background fsck and see whether it does better, the next
time the system comes back up after an unclean shutdown. I think bgfsck
has some kind of built-in throttling to avoid doing too much I/O, which
may not be working quite right in this case, causing it to simply hang
out mostly idle rather than finishing the filesystem check.
If you have to wait 5-minutes up front rather than sitting with the
thing crawling for an hour, maybe that's a better tradeoff...? Either
way, it would be interesting to know whether automatic fsck'ing in the
foreground procedes at a reasonable speed or not.
--
-Chuck
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