On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:03:56AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> Softdeps with ffs (in current) is supposed to never require fsck'ing,
> bugs excepted. You could still lose information, of course, but the
> filesystem remains in a consistent state (allegedly). For what it's
> worth, I enabled softdeps on my laptop's /usr. After running out of
> juice during a compile, fsck runs on the next start, but it doesn't
> complain about the usual "unreferenced file"'s. YMMV.

No it still requires fsck (you can't make all these operations atomic) but
with softdeps fsck could be integrated in kernel an run in background.
At last that's what I've been said :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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