On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..] > Also, on reboot, I notice fsck took a considerable time to check the > disk, though nothing major was found that interrupted the boot process. > Is this because FreeBSD doesn't use a journalling filesystem? I think I > read somewhere that FreeBSD chose to use a filesystem with soft updates > over a journalling one because it provides relatively equal data integrity > compared to a journalling one, but is more efficient with the order of > writing data, but does this mean that FreeBSD will always take longer to > recover from a crash? No, usually it is shorter. It all depends on how bad the fs state is and the free space (for fsck's snapshot). -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
