Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:32:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971024133004.4336A-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <199710241739.NAA12827@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > > Ok, I want to live dangerously, and run the disks with async writes. > > > > > > Do I have to put mount -u -o async /usr in a rc.local, or can I put an option in /etc/fstab? > > > > > > > I did this on a news server due to what was said on this list - and one in > > 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.
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