From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 9 15:17:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16069 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16058 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id AAA11467; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:16:04 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:10:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Ollivier Robert cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: Newbie 3 questions. In-Reply-To: <19980609202515.A8489@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The reverse of "async" is "noasync", not "sync" I believe. I believe you. One is never to young/dumb to learn. > > 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 :-) 1st) I live in Italy and 2 people live in one house that is restricted to one kilowatt. Why ? I don't know. I do know where the fuses are however. 2nd) I do kernel programming :-) My makefile ends with a sync and does a sync every other command. Paranoid is the word I believe. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message