On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > I don't see it listed in 5.0-RELEASE ERRATA. Several people have now > > reported problems with background fsck and in the case Kirk as > > original author is loaded with other work I see no justification to > > not mention the brokenness of bgfsck. > > I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2 > 80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 > hard resets, I haven't had any problem with either the machine or bgfsck > hanging. Here's what df's output looks like:
Following reports of problems with bgfsck during the 5.0-RC series, and prior to the release, I spent some time adding hard disks to machines, resetting without clean shutdowns, and then interrupting background fscks, piles of builds going, etc. When I started, it was fairly problematic, but after Kirk's last batch of buffer fixes, etc, it was pretty much 100% reliable on the boxes I was testing on. However, all those boxes used 40gb drives or smaller. I'll see if I can't dig up some larger drives in the next week or two and try doing that again. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
