background fsck, softupdates & inconsistent state on disk

Matthias Buelow mkb at incubus.de
Mon Aug 1 15:36:36 GMT 2005


Xin LI <delphij at frontfree.net> writes:

>Are you using IDE disk driver?  If so, having "hw.ata.wc=0" in your
>/boot/loader.conf would help the SoftUpdates situation.

This won't help in the case when the kernel crashes; this (ugly)
workaround only helps at a power loss.

mkb.


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