Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:15:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Cc: marc@bowtie.nl, neal@pernet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <199703102215.PAA23669@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970310124111.4273U-100000@thelab.hub.org> from "The Hermit Hacker" at Mar 10, 97 12:42:29 pm
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> > Just wondering: > > > > Has anyone using the async option ever had to restore their > > filesystem? I'm seeing a lot of warnings about using it, but > > I'm wondering about actual experience figures. > > > No, have been lucky so far...am running both noatime and async > on my spool, and run it 24/7 without a problem, and do have panic > reboots occasionally... > > I don't know if running fsck -y instead of fsck -p helps that > though, in the rc file... Are you rebuilding the index file each time you crash? If not, you may end up with "stale" index entries for articles which no longer exist on your machine, either becuse they were being written at the time of the crash, or because the crash caused their directory entries to disappear, or because the index was being updated at the time of the failure. This isn't a big deal, but it is a potential problem that would not be obvious following a successful completion of a fsck, which only picks *a* consistent state to restore to, not *the* consistent state. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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