Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On Monday 25 November 2002 12:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> = On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:24:46AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> =
> = > > I thought, this might be due to the priority of the background
> = > > fsck and have once left it alone for several hours -- with no
> = > > effect. The usual fsck takes a few minutes.
> =
> = We really need to disable background fsck if the system panicked.
> 
> Otherwise, is there a need for fsck at all? Can sudden powerloss be
> reliably distinguished from a panic?

No, nor from hardware failures (disk/controller/other), without
NVRAM to save the crash reason in the case there is one.

-- Terry

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