Softupdates not preventing lengthy fsck
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Apr 11 17:31:17 PDT 2005
In the last episode (Apr 11), Kris Kennaway said:
> I'm seeing the following problem: on 6.0 machines which have had a lot
> of FS activity in the past but are currently quiet, an unclean reboot
> will require an hour or more of fscking and will end up clearing
> thousands of inodes:
This might be expected behaviour if the previous boot tried to do a
bgfsck and failed. It should set a flag forcing a full fsck on the
next boot, which will clear out the half-committed inodes from the
previous crash. I see it often on 5.*.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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