background fsck can be dangerous!

[Steven Hartland]

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 :(

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Niki Denev" <ndenev at icdsoft.com>

> 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


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