Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:35:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971024173424.26416D-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199710241739.NAA12827@lakes.dignus.com>
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> Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> 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.
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