From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 15:26:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA25127 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 15:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA25104 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 15:26:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA05033; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:25:08 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199710242225.RAA05033@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: mount -o async In-Reply-To: from Shawn Ramsey at "Oct 24, 97 01:32:53 pm" To: shawn@luke.cpl.net (Shawn Ramsey) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:25:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Shawn Ramsey said: > > > 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. > Just a friendly warning :-). Be very careful :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com