[plug] What does public opion feel about Riser FS?

[James Devenish]

In message <20030521141530.GC17895 at amidala>
on Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:15:30PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Random note: fsck'ing is *GOOD*.

Unfortunately, one fsck(1m) manual says:

WARNINGS
     The operating system  buffers  file  system  data.   Running
     fsck  on  a  mounted  file  system  can  cause the operating
     system's buffers to become out of date with respect  to  the
     disk.  For  this reason, the file system should be unmounted
     when  fsck is used. If this is not possible, care should  be
     taken  that  the system is quiescent and that it is rebooted
     immediately after fsck is run. Quite  often,  however,  this
     will not be sufficient.  A panic will probably occur if run-
     ning  fsck on a file system modifies the file system.

> on boot

sorehanandesuka?

PS. Apologies for mixing threads. This was a combination of niche jokes. I
understand what Bernard is talking about, and why it is good advice, but I
often use machines that are continually on by necessity. Thus I asked "what
is 'boot'?" in Japanese. As an aside, it may be noted that some filesystems
or volume managers provide 'snapshots', which allow you to fsck on an active
system.