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To: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat <mojahed@citechco.net>
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Subject: Re: UFS more susceptible? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:00:23 -0800
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>Hello,
>
>I live in a part of the world where power is very irregular.  In
>my short experience with *BSD, I see that UFS has more problems
>than ext2 with unclean shutdown.  I lost files in both FreeBSD
>and OpenBSD, this was very rare in my 2 years in Linux land.
>
>Is there any way to tweak the sync time?  (sync time for
>meta-data in Linux ext2 is 5 secs, configurable).
>
>I am FreeBSD 2.2.6 and OpenBSD 2.4.
>
>Any hints/pointers appreciated.

   sysctl -w kern.update=5

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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