Why doesn't background fsck work ?

[Bernd Walter]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:51:00PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> > > Hello!:
> > >
> > > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime
> > > I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to
> > > make a hard reboot.
> > > (I think I will fix the Xs problem this night at home)
> > >
> > > But I've got another weird problem. :)
> > >
> > > The fsck of my partitions is always made on the foregroud,
> > > although I've heard about something like a delayed/background
> > > file system checker.
> > >
> > > Why is it always made on the foreground ?
> >
> > No softupdates enabled?
> 
> yes, you've got it !
> 
> I haven't got softupdates enabled, but I didn't want to enable it,
> because I've heard that it isn't 100% reliable and I didn't want to lose
> data....

Softupdates works reliable from what I can tell.
Snapshots might have some issues and background fsck uses snapshots.

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