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Subject: Re: async fs?
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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Date: 18 Nov 1997 20:43:22 +0100
In-Reply-To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu's message of Mon, 17 Nov 1997 12:23:38 -0500 (EST)
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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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