Thank you Bruce and Matthew, for your very informed and insightful comments. I read online that this may be fixed in FreeBSD 9 with jeff's UFS Journaling patch. Have you guys tried this yet? http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: > 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"
