On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:20:15PM -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2003 01:45 pm, Dave Melton wrote:
> > Is there any way to eliminate the need for a manual fsck?
> >
> > I haven't lost any data yet, but I have had to make a couple
> > of 80 mile (133km) round trips to my colo facility to run
> > a fsck...
> 
> Enable softupdates.  No errors requiring manual intervention should be 
> encountered during fsck.

It's supposed to, but I would better trust plain FFS without softdeps for
this.
A manual fsck should never be needed, unless you have a hardware problem,
or uncooperating hardware (i.e. disks with write-back caches). Or, of
course, a software bug.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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