From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 13:36:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA18472 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:36:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA18458 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:36:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA04628; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:32:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Thomas David Rivers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async In-Reply-To: <199710241739.NAA12827@lakes.dignus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. > > > > Hmmm.. are these crashes due to things like power-outages, or > something else? I once just shut a FreeBSD mounted asynchronously just to see what would happen. I did have to fsck manually, but other than that, everything seemed fine. Mounting a news spool asynchronosly is a very good idea, assuming you are not feeding a lot of sites, and just have mostly readers. It would really depend on how important your news spool is to you. For some losing it wouldnt be a big deal.