Date: 18 Nov 1997 20:43:22 +0100 From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: async fs? Message-ID: <87hg9augx1.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu's message of Mon, 17 Nov 1997 12:23:38 -0500 (EST) References: <87vhxq6lgm.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id>
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>> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 12:23:38 -0500 (EST), chuckr@glue.umd.edu said:
c> On 17 Nov, Nicolai Petri wrote:
>>
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> I read something about mounting a drive in async mode, I
>> wondered if this will give me a performance increase on my
>> proxy server.. And is it possible to do it on all filesystems
>> ??
>>
c> Are you aware that losing your system while you are running
c> async is usually fairly safe (often you lose no files, or if
c> you were very busy doing disk activity, maybe a few), but if
c> you are mounted async, you could possibly lose much, much more?
c> It'll certainly increase performance, but you'd better be
c> willing to pay the price.
I always use async for everything; it speeds up things a lot.
Since I make regular backups it is no problem if I would loose my
system once and it is worth it.
Even then, in 2 years use of FreeBSD and some crashes I've never lost
a filesystem.
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