Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 11:45:25 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>, rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971025113634.21429C-100000@unicorn> In-Reply-To: <199710242225.RAA05033@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > 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 :-). Indeed - Hoewver, consider the situation with (say) 6 or 8 drives in a CCD as a news spool - if one drive develops a hardware fault then (until we get some sort of redundancy support) you are going to lose the entire ccd anyway! I guess it all depends on what you think will break first - a drive (and you are now N times more likely to lose one) or the OS, power source, etc. In my experince of running half a dozen news servers in the past 2 years, it's always been the drives that have failed )-: Gordon
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