Re: -current unusable after a crash

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:02 PM -0800 2002/11/25, Terry Lambert wrote:

 If you made system dumps mandatory (or marked swap with a non-dump
 header in case of panic), this still would not handle the "silent
 reboot", "double panic", or "single panic with disk I/O trashed"
 cases.  8-(.

How about we do the safe thing, and only do background fsck if we can prove that the system state is something where it would be suitable? Or would that mean that we almost never do background fsck?

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