Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:45:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make FreeBSD's hard drive as reliable as possible? Message-ID: <20020711114447.K37674-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <20020710165513.O7573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
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Thanks to everyone for the responses. Totally spaced on the UPS thing. I've got them here, but didn't think about them for this purpose... partly because it's somewhat out of my control (same for backups) -- in that all I can do is recommend and urge and suggest, but not dictate. Thanks again! -philip On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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