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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:54:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Martin Welk <mw@freibergnet.de>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, lrios <lrios@ziplink.net>, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>
Subject:   Re: Linux And FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980420065418.mw@freibergnet.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980416150841.10565Q-100000@hub.org>

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On 16-Apr-98 The Hermit Hacker wrote:

()      Not completely accurate...I've had a bugger of a time with my
()  -stable box and crashes, yet my ASYNC mounted drives have *yet* to cause
()  me any grief.  I don't do it on anything i consider to be critical, so
()  just use it for news, but my history file is mounted async, and I
()  imagine
()  I would notice corruption very quickly in that...

I do the same, mounting /var/tmp and /var/news on a separate disk async.
Until the system is running normally and shut down regularly, I have
experienced no problems. I don't experience difficulties either mounting
/usr async doing compiles in /usr/src. But on power failure, I have one time
lost my file /var/tmp when there was heavy disk activity. For /var/tmp,
that's no problem, newfs is your friend. For /var/news, it's not totally the
same, but as I run a single-user leaf site, I have no problem to deal with
that risk. At work, on "production machines", I don't use async mounts.

Regards,

Martin
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