From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 9 21:43:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA18885 for current-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA18876 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA25958; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:43:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199602100543.WAA25958@rover.village.org> To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: How Cc: coredump@onyx.nervosa.com (invalid opcode), current@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 09 Feb 1996 20:30:41 MST Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 22:43:06 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : 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