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 > >

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

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

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 wa

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,

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

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 T

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

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: > > Hel

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 shou

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 f

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 che

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. Ev

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 hence