On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > I've not had a single crash / power outage that background fsck has > been able to deal with. 90% of the time the machine will fail to even > boot to single user mode :(
You should turn write caching off on your drives. > Steve > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Niki Denev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I want just to share my last experience with the combination of > >power failure + background fsck. After the power returned and the > >machine booted, it sheduled background fsck after 60 seconds, but > >at this point most of the services were already started, and some of them > >seemed to rely on files that were probably in unclean state before the > >check. > >This unfortunately leaded to some lost email...after the fsck completed, > >everything runs ok, but i have now set background_fsck to NO in rc.conf. > > > >Here is a sad sample from my qmail log file : > >@4000000042c1badc24fc21cc delivery 1: > >success: > >/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:_Shared_object_"libpq.so.3"_not_found,_required_by_"dspam"/did_0+0+1/ > >@4000000042c1badc24fff25c status: local 2/30 remote 0/20 > >@4000000042c1badc250151ec delivery 4: > >success: > >/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:_Shared_object_"libpq.so.3"_not_found,_required_by_"dspam"/did_0+0+1/ > >@4000000042c1badc2502bd34 status: local 1/30 remote 0/20 > >@4000000042c1badc25050ef4 end msg 23982 > >@4000000042c1badc2508b0a4 delivery 2: > >success: > >/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:_Shared_object_"libpq.so.3"_not_found,_required_by_"dspam"/did_0+0+1/ > >@4000000042c1badc250a9cd4 status: local 0/30 remote 0/20 > >@4000000042c1badc250c7d4c end msg 24087 > >@4000000042c1badc2510942c end msg 24040 The filesystem looks the same before, during, and after background fsck runs, other than the free space information. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
