fsck way too slow

[Andrea Venturoli]

Bill Moran wrote:

>> First of all: I believe that fsck should run in background, but it 
>> doesn't. How can I tell why?
> 
>>From my desktop:
> mount
> /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
> devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
> 
> Note that / does not have soft-updates, which I believe is the default.
> AFAIR, fsck can not do background mode unless soft-updates is enabled.
> 
> That's likely your problem.
> 

I have turned them on:
/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)

As other pointed out, however, / won't be checked in background.

This is still ok, for me, given it would take <5 min, as it should and 
as it did in the past.

  bye & Thanks
	av.