Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:41:41 -0400 (EDT) From: jamie <batsy@io.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mount -o -async Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961023003351.25154A-100000@zot.io.org>
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In the mount man page the async option is said to be very dangerous. I watched someone time a tar -xvf and when the filesystem was mounted asynchronously it was about 10x faster. This kind of speed is really really tempting but I'm wondering if anyone has any stats on how likely it is that I'll lose my filesystem(s) when it crashes. Is it garunteed or will I just lose anything that wasn't synched to disk before the crash.(40 sec worth of data) I'm using a Quantum Fireball 1.08G EIDE drive. No, I have no intention of using this on a production machine:) If I'm not sure what I'm talking about please don't hesitate to point it out:) -j "Information wants to be $4.95" --erikb Jämie Reid Jr Systems Administrator io.org/ican.net bätsy@io.org/ican.nethelp
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