From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 25 03:50:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA28680 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.97.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA28673 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id MAA16800 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 12:48:42 +0200 Received: by swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA06992; 25 Oct 97 12:44:59 +0100 From: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 24 Oct 97 21:46:44 +0100 Subject: Re: mount -o async Message-ID: <247_9710251244@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Organization: Fidonet: UNIX-sysadm søger job To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 24 Oct 97 17:14:12 shovey@buffnet.net wrote regarding mount -o async s> s>> Ok, I want to live dangerously, and run the disks with async s> writes. s>> s>> Do I have to put mount -u -o async /usr in a rc.local, or can I s> put an option in /etc/fstab? s>> s> s> I did this on a news server due to what was said on this list - s> and one in four crashes ended up in a completely corupted drive. I guess I can live with that. When I run dos, I have to flush the diskcache manually anyway. I have put a flush-command in my makefiles, and that seems enough. How long is the write delayed? Is there some way to have a short delay, to make it safer? Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk