Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:00:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: burt@focusplus.com (burt f.) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ? power outages and file system corruption Message-ID: <199708260400.VAA02776@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199708260037.RAA10996@scorpio.focusplus.com> from "burt f." at Aug 25, 97 05:37:27 pm
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> Is the only way to protect against power-outage-caused file system > corruption to install a UPS? Someone mentioned to me that Sun > (yeah, i know it's Solaris, but i just wanted to know if there was > something analogous in FBSD) has some sort of disk/FS caching to > protect against this. Sun has a non-volatile write buffer card you can buy for Sun machines so async writes aren't dangerous. If you don't use async writes in FreeBSD, you don't have that problem. 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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