Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Roberto Pereyra wrote: > FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf > Set in /etc/rc.conf > fsck_y_enable="YES" all that does is to automatically answer Y whenever fsck asks you a question. it still doesnt make fsck happen in the background as the

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +, Peter Risdon wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:22:04AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote: > > > 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. > FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf > > S

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:22:04AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra typed: > > > 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.c

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +, Peter Risdon typed: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > >Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems > > > >you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck > >is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +, Peter Risdon wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems > >you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck > >is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either confi

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Roberto Pereyra
> 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 AS

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
Matthew Seaman wrote: Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either confirm or deny that. I'm sure this is right. If one of my 5.* machines has

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:45:31AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > I am considering switching our "production" server from 4.9 to 5.2. > "production" means that it serves some 20 people at our university > institute. > Unfortunately the machine crashes occasionally which would be tolerable > if