Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:44:19 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick Message-ID: <19991006154419.O20768@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <99Oct6.145359est.40347@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <99Oct6.103524est.40351@border.alcanet.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910051831180.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <99Oct6.145359est.40347@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:57:23PM +1000, a little birdie told me
that Peter Jeremy remarked
>
> I guess we disagree on this. My feeling is that write activity on
> root should be minimised to minimise the risk that root will be
> inconsistent following a crash.
Indeed.
Thus:
/dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100)
^^^^^^^^^^^
Though I'm still waiting for an explanation of WHY exactly I have async
writes on a sync partition. Nobody yet has said anything but 'that's
interesting...'. A direction to look would be helpful.
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