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From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Leif Neland <leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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Subject: Re: mount -o async
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On 23 Oct 1997, Leif Neland wrote:

> Ok, I want to live dangerously, and run the disks with async writes.
> 
> Do I have to put mount -u -o async /usr in a rc.local, or can I put an option in /etc/fstab?
> 

I did this on a news server due to what was said on this list - and one in
four crashes ended up in a completely corupted drive.