Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 19:40:22 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1021483897.a81af7@mired.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My horror story Message-ID: <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <15580.1017.276905.556906@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1021483897.a81af7@mired.org on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:31:37PM -0500 References: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin> <20020510140222.M57329@lpt.ens.fr> <15580.1017.276905.556906@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer said on May 10, 2002 at 12:31:37: > > Three points of confusion here. One, the default mount is noasync, not > sync. True, sorry. > Two, softupdates is not orthogonal to the sync/noasync/async > mount flag. It turns those off when you do the mount, If so, it's not documented in the tunefs(8), newfs(8) or mount(8) manpages. > sync/softupdates/noasync/async. Finally, softupdates + write caching > off will generally keep your directory tree in a consistent state, but > that doesn't mean you can't lose data. True, but you won't lose old data, only new data which haven't been written to disk (ie, maybe a few minutes old at most). - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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