On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:23:08PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > > 47105 seems to be slightly different from what I saw, because my machine > > never paniced; the fsck just hung forever.
> It depends. My machine hangs, there's no panic. Yes, I overlooked that in the PR when I read it first. Mine was still usable: I could switch VTs and even log in, but I couldn't do anything about the hanging fsck processes. > > > I've already written to Kirk McKusick, but it seems that he has a lot > > > of work, because I didn't get answer. > > Ok, then things are already on their way, I guess. > Don't know, but I hope :) That makes two of us. :) > > I wonder if it's only the large filesystem that triggers this problem. > > Actually I think that my 50GB are not /that/ large, and someone else > > should have noticed the problem before. > I wonder what's the common in our case, then. I really don't know. I have a SV25 barebone system from Shuttle (VIA Twister Chipset) and an IBM deskstar 80GB IDE HD. Does that sound familiar to you? > > BTW: As mentioned in the PR one workaround is to turn off bg fsck. On > > the other hand bg fsck is working fine on smaller filesystems. Is there > > a way to turn bg fsck off for just one partition? > I don't know any. BTW, the big partitions are those which needs the extra > time, so it is very likely that you won't benefit too much from this... Well, the drive has 80GB, the big partition is 50GB, so I would save something like 3/8 of the time. Not too much, but better than nothing, I thought. ;) cu Gerrit -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
