But waiting so much time (like now) during foreground fsck of a large data
>> filesystem after unclean shutdown, makes me to come to this group to ask
>> whether I really need to avoid background fsck on a PostgreSQL machine?
>> Could I hear your opinions?
> Shouldn't a journaling file system just come back up almost immediately?
>
it's ufs2 with softupdates in my case. That's why I am asking abot background fsck.