Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joshua Lewis" <jmlewis@dslextreme.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Frequent Power Failures Message-ID: <1e0a1950a988aca8a.20040608164001.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> In-Reply-To: <834a6ebea29b3a375fa.20040608163505.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <834a6ebea29b3a375fa.20040608163505.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com>
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I think I found the setting. Ironic is was the next setting. Is this the correct setting to help prevent data loss (at from what I guess is a MAJOR performance hit.) hw.ata.wc Thank you, Joshua Lewis Joshua Lewis > My office is located in Southern California and of late we have had almost > ten power failures. > > I have set up my first FreeBSD box and am learning quickly. If my memory > serves I recall Unix writes to disk as little as possible to keep the > system running at peak efficiency. However I don't want to risk data loss. > So until I can get a UPS (that is absolutely next on my list) I want set > the system to write to the disk as soon as possible. > > I am currently looking through sysctl in the handbook to find some setting > that may enable writing data immediately. > > Am I in the correct place? There are A LOT of settings here can anyone > point me to the correct setting so I don't spend the rest of my life > reading. > > > Thank you, > Joshua Lewis > > > > >
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