On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:37:16PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > At least most likely. There could possibly a real inconsistency, > > but it would be difficult on a running system to distinguish it > > from the artifacts you point out above. > > But a real consistency would presumably persist with an fsck on a system > in single-user mode, which is (I assume) quiescent, right?
Yes (single-user mode isn't the issue; the filesystem needs to be unmounted or mounted read-only, or to be using UFS snapshots (in 5.x) in order for fsck to have a consistent snapshot of the data that doesn't change out from underneath it). Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
