From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 11:45:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65C837B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573DC43E4A for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BIjldq042347 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g6BIjllb042344 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:45:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:45:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make FreeBSD's hard drive as reliable as possible? In-Reply-To: <20020710165513.O7573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> Message-ID: <20020711114447.K37674-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to everyone for the responses. Totally spaced on the UPS thing. I've got them here, but didn't think about them for this purpose... partly because it's somewhat out of my control (same for backups) -- in that all I can do is recommend and urge and suggest, but not dictate. Thanks again! -philip On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi - > I was wondering what steps one can take to make the hard drive as > reliable as possible on FreeBSD. By reliable I mean what can I do to > ensure that if the power gets flipped off the box will come back up > unattended in a usuable state. > > - Some of the filesystems need to be read/write (/var for instance). Is > it worth setting /usr to read-only if nothing ever gets written to it > anyway? > > - How dangerous is setting fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? The man > page suggests it can be pretty dangerious, but the alternative is to have > to go hook a monitor up to the box and deal with it manually.. > > - Should I turn softupdates off? I'm not really concerned > about performance.. > > - What else? > > Thanks all! > > -philip > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message