Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount async and possible loss of F/S Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971005214124.2413A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710060106.SAA21602@hub.freebsd.org>
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if you lose power during disk activity a LOT of changes might be funny on the disk and definetly in the directory where the disk activity was going on, you can loose a lot of files, but if you back up often it's a real speed increase... .________________________________________________________________________ __ _ |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin --"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?" |perlsta@sunyit.edu --"who was that masked admin?" |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta : ' On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > The mount command cheerfully states that the async option is not to be used > unless you are prepared to recreate the file system. Ummm, exactly > what is left so hanging in the wind that you lose the file system rather > than just the recent updates? > > Thanks > -ahd- >
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