On Sunday 09 May 2010 04:18:12 Ansar Mohammed wrote: > The background to this problem is because the FreeBSD root filesystem (UFS) > is not journaled and for some reason I cannot set my root partition to be > UFS+SoftUpdates. > > At any rate, we are in the year 2010, most modern operating systems and > databases and able to survive an unclean shutdown without booting into > single user mode and file system/data corruption.
Even with SoftUpdates and journaling you'll find UFS doesn't cope well with unclean shutdowns: to test it, a couple of weeks ago I started a "rm -rf /usr/obj/*" and pressed the reset button - upon startup I got dumped into single-user mode with a softupdates inconsistency. I've not tried the same test but I think ZFS is much better at recovering from this sort of problem since it was designed from the start to be very resilient. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"