hi, there! On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:43:37PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > > > Would that be a big problem to allow some fsck option not > > > > > to erase all these softupdates-pending inodes, but to put > > > > > them in lost+found as usual? > > > > > > > > It certainly couldn't be done with the background fsck, > > > > because background fsck works on a snapshot and not the > > > > running filesystem; thus, it cannot make any allocations -- it > > > > can only deallocate things. > > > > > > Still, in case you know some of your important files can be lost, > > > you can boot the system to single user and run foreground fsck. > > > >this is not an option if the system was rebooted because of power > >loss or kernel panic > > Can't you just set the rc.conf option to not-do the background fsck? I can but the whole purpose of background fsck (faster startup times) will be lost. /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
