Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:02:22 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My horror story Message-ID: <20020510140222.M57329@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin>; from thexder@lvcm.com on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:23:00AM -0700 References: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin>
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Taylor Dondich said on May 10, 2002 at 02:23:00: > It fought a good fight. Orion, I only had you for a short time. Your day > will come again. > > So it's time to rebuild a new server, and get more experience with > filesystems and fsck. Any tips you have would be extremely greatful. I've crashed/powered-off my system many times when playing with a USB audio driver. The first two times, the automatic fsck failed; I figured it was because I had IDE write-caching turned on (the default, but unsafe), so I turned it off (safe but slow, but I haven't noticed much difference.) Since then I've never had a problem. I think the conventional wisdom is that if you use sync mounts (default) + softupdates, and turn off IDE write-caching, your filesystem should always be in a consistent state. I'm no expert, I'm quoting from the tuning(7) manpage and elsewhere... - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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