> Quoting Martti Kuparinen (martti.kuparinen@iki.fi):
> > 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?
> 
> 1) A UPS is your friend and is fairly cheap.
> 2) After a crash, I certainly got used to my Sun 4s spending 45
>    minutes fsck'ing the 12 disks it had.  An early "win" I had
>    in that env was reconfiguring fstab to run concurrent fscks
>    and got it DOWN to 20 minutes.  There was much rejoicing.
>      And yes, I get cranky at long fsck's myself, but I offer
>    this as perspective.  120GB is a lot of files and data.

A significant problem I have not yet resolved, is how we want to
change fstab so that we can parallel fsck partitions on one raid5...