From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 6 13:48: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD511575E for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA17979; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:44:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:44:19 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick Message-ID: <19991006154419.O20768@futuresouth.com> References: <99Oct6.103524est.40351@border.alcanet.com.au> <99Oct6.145359est.40347@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <99Oct6.145359est.40347@border.alcanet.com.au> X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message