From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 08:11:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15477 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15471 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA09734; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:10:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id KAA28146; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:10:49 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199703111610.KAA28146@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? To: marc@bowtie.nl (Marc van Kempen) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 10:10:47 CST Cc: neal@pernet.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703100908.KAA18207@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> from "Marc van Kempen" at Mar 10, 97 10:08:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Just wondering: > > Has anyone using the async option ever had to restore their > filesystem? I'm seeing a lot of warnings about using it, but > I'm wondering about actual experience figures. Never had a problem; "newfs" works great to restore your filesystem. :-) (In general, I have not seen anything that a good fsck -y couldn't fix, but async does imply additional peril) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847