> However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs > takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it > fscks in the background.
Hi FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf Set in /etc/rc.conf fsck_y_enable="YES" roberto > The machine is an ASUS A7V333 with AMD XP 1800+ and 512 MB RAM, 3ware > 7500 RAID. > It provides the 'usual' services: > - NFS > - Samba > - IMAP > - SMTP > - LPD printing > - Mailman > - HTTP > - Postgres > - LDAP User, mail aliases, automount info > - IMP Webmail > > So, no fancy hard- or software, i guess. > Would it be very hazardous to sitch to 5.2 already now? > > Another thing: Is there any point in converting the filesystems to UFS2 > (in a later step)? > > Thanks for any insight, > > Heinrich > -- > > Heinrich Rebehn > > University of Bremen > Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering > - Department of Telecommunications - > > Phone : +49/421/218-4664 > Fax : -3341 > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"