5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> writes:

Doug> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, David Gilbert wrote:
>> I'd like to see:
>> 
>> crash -> boot -> defer for bgfsck (but mark disk as having tried)
-> multiuser -> bgfsck -> crash -> boot -> fsck in foreground
-> multiuser
>>  ... but I believe this would require fsck support unless the
>> startup scripts were writing to the filesystem to indicate no
>> bgfsck.

Doug> What you propose would also be really complicated for other
Doug> reasons related to the way rcNG works. I would suggest that your
Doug> best bet is always:

Doug> crash -> boot single user -> fsck -y -> multiuser

Doug> That's pretty much guaranteed to work.

True, but faced with a machine that can't be upgraded (swap to vinum
not supported in 5.2) but still crashes every so often (once a month
or so), the non-background fsck (which is what we do now) takes 5 to
10 minutes (lotsa disk).

I think the above could be achieved by the smarts being in fsck.  It
would refuse to background if the already-tried bit was set.  I
believe this would work without rc changes.

Dave.

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