On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:52:38PM -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote: > Adding a two minute delay before starting background fsck > sounds like a very good idea to me. Please send me your > suggested change.
Here it is. As written it doesn't add the delay, but you can change
etc/defaults/rc.conf to do that it desired.
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Index: etc/rc
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RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/rc,v
retrieving revision 1.323
diff -u -p -r1.323 rc
--- etc/rc 26 Nov 2002 17:51:03 -0000 1.323
+++ etc/rc 4 Dec 2002 23:08:41 -0000
@@ -982,8 +982,14 @@ esac
# Start background fsck checks if necessary
case ${background_fsck} in
[Yy][Ee][Ss])
- echo 'Starting background filesystem checks'
- nice -4 fsck -B -p 2>&1 | logger -p daemon.notice &
+ bgfsck_msg='Starting background file system checks'
+ if [ ${background_fsck_delay:=0} -gt 0 ]; then
+ bgfsck_msg="${bgfsck_msg} in ${background_fsck_delay} seconds"
+ fi
+ echo "${bgfsck_msg}."
+
+ (sleep ${background_fsck_delay}; nice -4 fsck -B -p) 2>&1 | \
+ logger -p daemon.notice &
;;
esac
Index: etc/defaults/rc.conf
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RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.164
diff -u -p -r1.164 rc.conf
--- etc/defaults/rc.conf 6 Dec 2002 05:23:37 -0000 1.164
+++ etc/defaults/rc.conf 6 Dec 2002 18:02:18 -0000
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ script_name_sep=" " # Change if your sta
rc_conf_files="/etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local"
fsck_y_enable="NO" # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.
background_fsck="YES" # Attempt to run fsck in the background where possible.
+background_fsck_delay="0" # Time to wait (seconds) before starting the fsck.
extra_netfs_types="NO" # List of network extra filesystem types for delayed
# mount at startup (or NO).
Index: etc/rc.d/bgfsck
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RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/rc.d/bgfsck,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 bgfsck
--- etc/rc.d/bgfsck 28 Jul 2002 03:38:10 -0000 1.2
+++ etc/rc.d/bgfsck 9 Oct 2002 23:31:45 -0000
@@ -11,9 +11,20 @@
name="background-fsck"
rcvar="background_fsck"
-start_precmd="echo 'Starting background file system checks.'"
-start_cmd="nice -4 fsck -B -p 2>&1 | logger -p daemon.notice &"
+start_cmd="bgfsck_start"
stop_cmd=":"
+
+bgfsck_start ()
+{
+ bgfsck_msg='Starting background file system checks'
+ if [ ${background_fsck_delay:=0} -gt 0 ]; then
+ bgfsck_msg="${bgfsck_msg} in ${background_fsck_delay} seconds"
+ fi
+ echo "${bgfsck_msg}."
+
+ (sleep ${background_fsck_delay}; nice -4 fsck -B -p) 2>&1 | \
+ logger -p daemon.notice &
+}
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"
Index: share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
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RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5,v
retrieving revision 1.166
diff -u -p -r1.166 rc.conf.5
--- share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 29 Nov 2002 11:39:19 -0000 1.166
+++ share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 4 Dec 2002 23:11:53 -0000
@@ -734,6 +734,11 @@ If set to
the system will attempt to run
.Xr fsck 8
in the background where possible.
+.It Va background_fsck_delay
+.Pq Vt int
+The amount of time in seconds to sleep before starting a background fsck.
+Setting this to a non-zero number may allow large applications such as
+the X server to start before disk I/O bandwidth is monopolized by fsck.
.It Va extra_netfs_types
.Pq Vt str
If set to something other than
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