> it is explained how you can mount a SoftUpdate fs immediately, and run fsck
> in the background to take care of any cleanup. (The cleanup is in relation
> to unreferenced blocks and inode link counts, which does not effect stored
> data and its related metadata.) OpenBSD's fsck does not yet support the
> background check yet. I am not sure if any of the other BSDs do either. So,

No, fsck does not support background checking in BSDs.
fsck on live fs is based on 'snapshot' feature. Support for snapshots
is very alpha even in FreeBSD.

> SoftUpdates supports zero-integrity checking,
> Nevermind the bollocks, here comes the SoftUpdates....
>
> Is anyone working on adding full SoftUpdate checking/support into OpenBSD?

I'm trying bring softupdates up to date with freebsd. I'm not developer,
so i can't say will my work appear in OpenBSD code or not.

        Grigoriy.

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