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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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