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.=20 I watched someone time a tar -xvf and when the filesystem was mounted=20 asynchronously it was about 10x faster. This kind of speed is really=20 really tempting but I'm wondering if anyone has any stats on how likely=20 it is that I'll lose my filesystem(s) when it crashes. Is it garunteed or= =20 will I just lose anything that wasn't synched to disk before the=20 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=20 out:)=20 -j "Information wants to be $4.95" --erikb J=E4mie Reid Jr Systems Administrator io.org/ican.net b=E4tsy@io.org/ican.n= et
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