Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:15:59 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make FreeBSD's hard drive as reliable as possible? Message-ID: <3D2D68EF.9090705@rambo.simx.org> References: <20020710165513.O7573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
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Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi - > I was wondering what steps one can take to make the hard drive as > reliable as possible on FreeBSD. By reliable I mean what can I do to > ensure that if the power gets flipped off the box will come back up > unattended in a usuable state. > > - Some of the filesystems need to be read/write (/var for instance). Is > it worth setting /usr to read-only if nothing ever gets written to it > anyway? > > - How dangerous is setting fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? The man > page suggests it can be pretty dangerious, but the alternative is to have > to go hook a monitor up to the box and deal with it manually.. > > - Should I turn softupdates off? I'm not really concerned > about performance.. > > - What else? > > Thanks all! > > -philip > Sounds to me like you need an UPS. It doesnt matter what you do, kill the power to a drive when its writing and you risc loosing data. Thats it, nothing you can do about it. Sure, you can minimize the risk, but it will still be there. If you really dont want to loose anything you need UPS and mirrored drives. I would even backup the mirror on tape, but thats me. :) -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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