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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Application launch time
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Date: 3 Feb 89 07:40:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Feb  3 01:40:00 1989


Why isn't it possible to do the fsck in the background?  Couldn't just
some *core* set of files (swap files, critical demon programs) be
checked, then the rest of the filesystem check could go on in the
background, after boot-up?  If a problem was found, some sort of panic
or system interruption could happen.

Don