[PLUG] Forced fsck

[Michael M.]

m0gely wrote:
> Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
>> I have been watching this thread and wondering why I hadn't seen this 
>> forced fsck happen.  It finally occured to me...I rarely shut my 
>> Ubuntu box off.  It hasn't seen 30 boots since I installed Ubuntu on 
>> it.  Judging by what I am reading here, maybe I should manually cause 
>> the system to run fsck once in a while???
>
> I've been watching this too and am puzzled.  What's the point at all? 
> If the system is being shutdown properly then fsck shouldn't be needed 
> on boot outside of special scenarios.  BSD doesn't do this.
>

You mean BSD doesn't force an fsck if you're using ext3?  Or BSD 
doesn't, in general?  I thought that the lack of fsck's in FreeBSD with 
UFS is owing to softupdates, which (as I understand it) head off the 
problems fsck's are supposed to fix.  Don't softupdates write the 
metadata out always and keep the file system in an incorruptible (i.e., 
by a power outage) state?

Maybe I'm behind the times on the status of file system support in 
FreeBSD, but I thought that it supported reading and writing to an ext3 
partition only in non-journaled mode.  I want to find out more about 
this anyway, because I'm still interested in trying FreeBSD.

-- 
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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