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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