how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:42:45PM -0500, Tamouh H. wrote:
>  
> > 
> > Ensel Sharon wrote:
> > > I have disabled background fsck in my /etc/rc.conf with:
> > > 
> > > background_fsck="no"
> > > 
> > > But I am curious - what does this mean for the system if the system 
> > > crashes ?
> > > 
> > > Does this mean that the system will wait for all non root 
> > partitions 
> > > to fully fsck before coming up into multi-user mode ?
> > > 
> > > OR
> > > 
> > > Does it mean the system will boot up quickly into 
> > multi-user mode, but 
> > > the non-root partitions will just not be mounted and/or 
> > usable until I 
> > > fsck them by hand ?
> > > 
> > > thanks.
> > 
> > The former, as I can say with ample experience this morning. 
> > (stupid USB
> > panic)
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Micah
> 
> I find both ways useless. If fsck background starts after a crash it literally slows down the machine to a halt rendering it unusable.
> 
> If enable fsck to check the system prior to mounting device, it will take at least 15-30 minutes for it to complete (in the event of a hard crash). Which also translates to a downtime.
> 
> disabling fsck on the long run is a bad choice too as eventually the system files will become corrupt beyond repair.
> 
> What is the solution here ?

Invest in a UPS?

Kris
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