Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:06:18 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error message while cvsup'ing RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <199709182106.OAA09275@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:25:06 CDT." <XFMail.970916192506.conrads@neosoft.com>
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> >Was the filesystem mounted async at the time of the crash? I'm > >just curious. > > Um, I'm really not sure what that is, to be honest. :-) It is a special option you can use to mount a filesystem. It makes operations on the files and directories substantially faster, but it also creates a real risk of losing data (maybe a lot of data) if there is a power failure or system crash. I personally don't recommend using it. > I just do a normal mount on startup from fstab: > > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/wd1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd1s1f /usr ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd1s1e /var ufs rw 1 1 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos rw 0 0 > /dev/wd1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/wd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 You're not using async mounts, then. (Good!) They are enabled by adding "async" to the list of options. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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