Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:25:08 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: shawn@luke.cpl.net (Shawn Ramsey) Cc: rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async Message-ID: <199710242225.RAA05033@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971024133004.4336A-100000@luke.cpl.net> from Shawn Ramsey at "Oct 24, 97 01:32:53 pm"
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Shawn Ramsey said: > > > four crashes ended up in a completely corupted drive. > > > > > > > Hmmm.. are these crashes due to things like power-outages, or > > something else? > > I once just shut a FreeBSD mounted asynchronously just to see what would > happen. I did have to fsck manually, but other than that, everything > seemed fine. Mounting a news spool asynchronosly is a very good idea, > assuming you are not feeding a lot of sites, and just have mostly readers. > It would really depend on how important your news spool is to you. For > some losing it wouldnt be a big deal. > Just a friendly warning :-). Be very careful :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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