From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 14:38:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA22236 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA22229 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20215; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:35:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:35:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Thomas David Rivers cc: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async In-Reply-To: <199710241739.NAA12827@lakes.dignus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Steve Hovey writes: > > On 23 Oct 1997, Leif Neland wrote: > > > > > Ok, I want to live dangerously, and run the disks with async writes. > > > > > > Do I have to put mount -u -o async /usr in a rc.local, or can I put an option in /etc/fstab? > > > > > > > I did this on a news server due to what was said on this list - and one in > > four crashes ended up in a completely corupted drive. > > > > Hmmm.. are these crashes due to things like power-outages, or > something else? Oh one time it was a set of ethernet card problems - one time it was something else that crashed or locked it up - i forget which - I didnt mean to imply running async CAUSED a crash - just that having crashed I had to newfs one or more partitions and it wasnt fun putting it back together.