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Date:      Fri, 09 Feb 1996 22:43:06 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        coredump@onyx.nervosa.com (invalid opcode), current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How 
Message-ID:  <199602100543.WAA25958@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 09 Feb 1996 20:30:41 MST

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: To allow your system to *always* be recoverable (even if data writes
: to open files may be lost), you should mount sync.

Except when the meta data writes fail, of course...

: For anything other than initial install, copying, archiving, async
: is a bad bet.  For those particular operations, it's a big win.

It can also be good on a partition devoted solely to news that is
allowed to be newfs on data corruption as well...

Warner



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