File systems clean after crash?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Thu Sep 28 05:21:34 PDT 2006


Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Now I wonder why three of the file systems were reported as
> being clean.  It's my understanding that file systems are
> only marked clean when they're unmounted.  Did that change
> recently?  The system was idle at the time of the crash,
> and soft-updates was enabled, so it's possible that there
> weren't any write accesses to the file systems within some
> time frame (a few minutes, I guess).  Does the UFS code
> mark a mounted file system as clean if there wasn't any
> write operation for a certain time?

I don't think so, but it's a good idea :)



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