On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 17:47, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Rod Taylor wrote: > > > Yes, before UFS had soft updates, the synchronous nature of UFS made it > > > slower than ext2, but now with soft updates, that performance difference > > > is gone so you have two files systems, ext2 and ufs, similar peformance, > > > but one is crash-safe and the other is not. > > > > Note entirely true. ufs is both crash-safe and quick-rebootable. You > > do need to fsck at some point, but not prior to mounting it. Any > > corrupt blocks are empty, and are easy to avoid. > > I am assuming you need to mount the drive as part of the reboot. Of > course you can boot fast with any file system if you don't have to mount > it. :-)
Sorry, poor explanation. Background fsck (when implemented) would operate on a currently mounted (and active) file system. The only reason fsck is required prior to reboot now is because no-one had done the work. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current See the first paragraph of the above. -- Rod Taylor ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
