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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Subject: Re: changing mount options still can cause damage? 
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:16:09 -0800
From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@flamingo.McKusick.COM>
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    Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:44:44 -0800
    From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
    To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@flamingo.McKusick.COM>
    Cc: fs@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org
    Subject: Re: changing mount options still can cause damage?

    * Kirk McKusick <mckusick@flamingo.McKusick.COM> [000221 16:30] wrote:
    > 
    > Switching between read-only and read-write should never cause filesystem
    > corruption. Running async can certainly lead to corruption if the
    > system crashes. There is an indeterminate period of time after the
    > system has been switched from async to sync before it will be stable
    > again, but that period will rarely be more than a minute or two. The
    > act of switching between sync and async should not cause corruption.
    > It is just the inherent risk of corruption while running async.
    > 
    > 	Kirk McKusick

    Then I vote to remove it, there's no reason we should be slandering
    ourselves in our own manpages, the async option already describes
    the dangers pretty clearly.

    May I axe it?

    -- 
    -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]

As far as I am concerned, you can axe it.

	~Kirk


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