On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:23:16AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > ffs with softupdate is really fast and reliable, but not truly > > journaling. > > Does ffs+softupdate require an fsck after a crash? > Yeah, but unless you were doing a lot of deleteing/copying/creating etc during the time of the crash, it's pretty quick. Like I said, I'm no fs guru, but from what I understand, a proper umount puts data somewhere that says "This fs is OK, no need for fsck before the next mount." > Not having to fsck is the defining feature of a journaling > filesystem, IMHO. > So, what happens to the data that's in RAM on it's way to the disk when the crash happens. Lost I presume? BTW, there's no need to fsck a ffs/softupdate system, unless it wasn't unmounted properly. (Unlike ext2fs, which needs the occasional clean up, even when nothig bad has happened.) > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
