how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ?

[Tamouh H.]

> 
> Tamouh H. wrote:
> 
> >Micah, Kris:
> >
> >You guys are hilarious, where can I find ppl like you ? 
> >
> >Of course I'm using a backup power, but there are 101 
> reasons for FreeBSD to reboot by itself and when that 
> happens, 30 minutes downtime is 30 minutes of wasted time.
> >  
> >
> Since you're *so* smart, perhaps you could help us stupid 
> people by listing those 101 reasons?  In ten years of FreeBSD 
> I've never had a system reboot except through power failure 
> or operator action.  Hardware failure can do it too, of 
> course, and if your system is so critical, where's its backup system?
> 
> If your system is panicking, then why aren't you doing 
> something to isolate the problem and help fix it?  Assuming 
> that there is a problem with the *system*.
> 
> --Alex
> 
> PS You can find plenty of people like Kris and Micah right here on
> freebsd-questions: people giving their own time to actually 
> help people sort out their problems.  Haven't seen you doing that.
> 

Probably your whole 10 YRS of working on FreeBSD was on a P-II or AMD K6 running a workstation in your basement, or who knows where.

I contribute to this group and many other places as much as I can with my experience and if you should check the archives you'll find my name pop-up there many times. I also do other types of contributions to the FreeBSD foundation and other organizations that utilize FreeBSD.

I didn't complain about the system reboots (did I?), there is definitely a problem with the system rebooting, but that is my job to resolve it (whether being hardware or FreeBSD itself) and YES FreeBSD does have its issues *BIG TIME* too. 

My post was regarding the whole concept of doing background fsck or foreground fsck if they both cause the machine not to be usable for the duration of the fsck.

I do appreciate a lot of people who take the time to address questions on these mailings and the many more who post to various forums and message boards.

However, I don't appreciate sarcasm and useless remarks especially if they were not intended to be humorous anyway.

Anyhow thanks for the help and great support !

Tamouh