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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:20:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu
Cc:        npp@neg-micon.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: async fs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117152003.936e-100000@cello.synapse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199711171723.MAA28442@earth.mat.net>

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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 chuckr@glue.umd.edu wrote:

> Are you aware that losing your system while you are running async is
> usually fairly safe (often you lose no files, or if you were very busy
> doing disk activity, maybe a few), but if you are mounted async, you
> could possibly lose much, much more?  It'll certainly increase
> performance, but you'd better be willing to pay the price.

Mounting a proxy cache or somesuch is probably a good use for async.  If
the disk is corrupted, the world won't end if you newfs the proxy cache.
But make sure that _all_ that is on that slice is the cache.

Evan




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