From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 15 02:48:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA18312 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 02:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA18303 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 02:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA29857; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:45:43 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA00479; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:51:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970815105107.41593@strand.iii.co.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:51:07 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Wes Peters Cc: Ken McKittrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o asynch = better performance ??????? References: <199708150604.AAA17883@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e In-Reply-To: <199708150604.AAA17883@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Fri, Aug 15, 1997 at 12:04:41AM -0600 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 15, 1997 at 12:04:41AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Ken McKittrick writes: > > How reliable is a file system if it's mounted asynch really???? > > Just as reliable as they are on Linux, where it is the default: > > NOT VERY! Not true. The reliability of the filesystem is the same. The possibility of filesystem corruption should the power suddenly go out increases though. Mounting your drives async is not going to suddenly cause random bit corruption in your files. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- "The good guys dress in black. Remember that." NC5-RIPE