From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 19 21:55:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21110 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:55:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beast.FreibergNet.de (beast.freibergnet.de [194.123.255.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20864 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 04:54:46 GMT (envelope-from mw@freibergnet.de) Received: from beast.FreibergNet.de (localhost.FreibergNet.de [127.0.0.1]) by beast.FreibergNet.de (8.8.5/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA02772; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:54:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mw@freibergnet.de) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:54:18 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: mw@freibergnet.de Organization: FreibergNet Liebscher & Partner Werbeagentur und XLink-PoP Freiberg From: Martin Welk To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: Linux And FreeBSD Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, lrios , Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- Liebscher & Partner Werbeagentur GbR // Martin Welk Advertising, Art Design & DTP // network administration Xlink Point Of Presence Freiberg // phone: (+49|0) 3731 781-387 Am St. Niclas Schacht 13 // fax: (+49|0) 3731 781-377 D-09599 Freiberg, Germany // http://www.freibergnet.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message