From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 9 11:41:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05242 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:41:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05148 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.0/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id UAA06493 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:41:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.9.0.Beta4/keltia-2.14/nospam) id UAA08499 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:25:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19980609202515.A8489@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:25:15 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: Newbie 3 questions. Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD hackers mailing list References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Nick Hibma on Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 03:28:47PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#4311 AMD-K6 MMX @ 225 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Nick Hibma: > mount -o update,async /usr ; rm -rf /usr ; mount -o update,sync /usr The reverse of "async" is "noasync", not "sync" I believe. > If you have anything operational, DON'T USE ASYNC! You'll have 0 byte > files before you know it after a crash/unexpected reboot. And believe > me, you're going to search all over the place to find that one. Some of us have been using "async" mounts for years (including John Dyson) without losing anything. Before switching to softupdates, everything on my disks except /, /usr and /var were "async"... So YMMV :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #60: Fri May 15 21:04:22 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message