Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a new home server running -current (1 GHz Mini-ITX,
> 2 x 120 GB, RAID-1 for everything) with a large /home (110 GB)
> for personal files, movies, photos etc. We recently had an
> unscheduled 20 min power outage in our house so the server
> went down without first umounting the file systems.
>
> When the power was restored the server booted and started to
> check the file systems with fsck. fsck on /home took a very
> long time (over 20 minutes) to complete so the server was
> unaccessible during that time.
>
> My question is: Are there any plans to implement background
> check or anything similar?
>
> PS. I finally figured out how to boot directly from RAID-1
> so I'll update my howto at
> http://www.piuha.net/~martti/bsd/raid/raid.html when I have
> some free time.
>
> Martti
>
I really would consider getting an UPS! =)
I got a cheap APC Back-UPS for less than 70€, and it will keep my 
crowded server running for about 15 minutes. And with apcupsd running, 
the system will shutdown cleanly if the power doesn't come back. The 
fact that it also protects my expensive (and sensitive) ADSL adapter 
from power surges makes it more than worthwhile.


// Thomas Hertz