On Saturday, April 2, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > FreeBSD which is the origin of FFS does a > background fsck, and if Kirk McCusick feels so strongly I will do it > too.
FreeBSD was not the origin of the FFS code. Background fsck in freebsd is mainly meant to reduce the amount of time it takes to get to a useable system at boot (after an unclean shutdown). -Toby.
