Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:34:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: brandon@roguetrader.com (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Known problems with async ufs? Message-ID: <199709241734.TAA00972@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970924102942.5645A-100000@roguetrader.com> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Sep 24, 97 10:31:54 am
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As Brandon Gillespie wrote... > On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > That answer the question? > > Very much so, thanks! > > Basically, with all of the down-play towards using an async FS it seemed > as if there may be bugs within the actual async code, and not just the > crash/power-fail situation problems. > > I personally am running off a smart-ups, and have a daemon monitoring it > so it will shutdown properly, if need be. UPS don't buy you much if the machine crashes/panics on it's own. Lets say due to a memory parity error, or hard I/O error in swap or something. My point is: it's not only power fails that can hurt you. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda
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