Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to foreground fsck, and I still don't know why running it on a mounted fs is 'bad' when

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to foreground fsck, and I still

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Ian Smith wrote: My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corrections are woven back into the live fs later is still a mystery to me, but that's because I

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Ian Smith wrote: My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corrections are woven back into the live fs

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-22 Thread Chris
On 20/08/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: On 20/08/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18/08/07, Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Maybe fsck should be

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello,

fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this first check is run whilst the file system is mounted, and is

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this first check is run

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Key
Bill Moran wrote: Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this