OT-ish: fedora->crash->single user fsck; FreeBSD->crash->smooth recovery

[Steve Franks]

>> Ok, I'll quit ranting and actually ask a question: The real big thing
>> that suprised me (about Fedora), is that every damn time it crashes, I
>> have to sit through 20 minutes of fsck when it boots, then it cries,
>> gags, and throws me into a root console to run fsck again, manually,
>> for 20 more minutes.  I'm thinking about symlinking fsck to a rather
>> dirtier word on the Fedora box.
>
> yes it is normal.
>
> linux filesystem works like in -o async mode, is just caches what it have to
> write and write whenever it likes at whatever sequence.
>
> in linux it is always presented as feature not bug.
>
>
> another very stupid thing is TOO delayed writes, i mean linux simply caches
> things as long as there are free memory then just starts lots of writes at
> once efectively halting the system for a while.
>

Ok, so you are saying the write caching is radically different on
FreeBSD than what I know of Win/Lin?  Or is the timeout to flush just
some really small period like 100mS?

Steve