On 27 Nov 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> > Reading http://www.mckusick.com./softdep/index.html, I wonder if we can
> > dispense fsck(8) now too, after update(8)?
> 
> McKusick is working on a background fsck, but as far as I know it's
> not available yet.  The idea is that the only errors (except media
> errors) that you can get with soft updates are with data that's marked
> as busy by can be reused and you can run the gc process of finding and
> cleaning these in the background.  See section 6.1 in the Usenix 1999
> paper.

Thank you for explaining!


 - Hubert

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