On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:40:53 +0000 Frank Shute wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:51:50PM +1000, R Skinner wrote:
> > possibly could, but it escaped me as to how. And before I do- I > > looked up journaling on 9. I couldn't quite get to the bottom of > > whether it is or isn't available/standard, or how to determine its > > happening. I'm only interested because of unexpected > > shutdowns/battery dead on the laptop- I also have 500G which is a > > while to wait for fsck. Speed I'd like, but I have to consider > > system integrity first. > I'm unfamiliar with the new bsdinstaller but AFAIK it sets up a UFS2 > filesystem for you. > > This comes with background fsck and softupdates which achieve the > objective of not having to wait for a lengthy foreground fsck if you > don't shutdown your laptop cleanly. > > > but to be honest, I wouldn't bother in your position: it's just more > stuff to go wrong for no appreciable gain to you. 9.0 also supports soft-update journalling which eliminates the background fsck. If you don't know whether it's on or not you can run tunefs -p / If it's not on then tunefs can turn it on, but you will presumably need to reboot into single user mode. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
