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Date:      Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:59:02 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Data loss when hard shutdown!
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On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:49:50 +0200, Phan Quoc Hien =20
<phanquochien@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank for your respond. I have checked my fstab file. I didn't see any
> option about SoftUpdates for my / partition.

When you give the command 'mount' you will see several lines like this.

/dev/ad8s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)

Softupdates can be enabled/disabled with the command tunefs. See 'man =20
tunefs'.

My advice is to not pull the power plug after changing critical files, bu=
t =20
to reboot cleanly. Than there is no problem for 99% of the time and your =
=20
computer is fast also.
Or is there a reason for you to prefer the power plug?

Ronald.


> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:19:12 +0700
>> Phan Quoc Hien <phanquochien@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for your respond.!
>> > Yes. I pulled the power plug .
>> > I edited rc.conf and save it then pulling the power plug. And system
>> > boot next time rc.conf is a blank file...!
>>
>> This is an issue when using SoftUpdates - data isn't written to disk
>> immediately, and empty files are produced when power is lost. See
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES fo=
r
>> details.
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Cran
>>
>
>



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