From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 20 19:30:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3D137B404 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0C443E7B for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8L2UgvH035291 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:30:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17sa2c-0000vJ-00 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:30:42 -0500 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggested modification to default install References: <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr> <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin> <20020510140222.M57329@lpt.ens.fr> <15580.1017.276905.556906@guru.mired.org> <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20020920095347.00b15f00@localhost> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 20 Sep 2002 21:30:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020920095347.00b15f00@localhost> Message-ID: <87bs6sdqgd.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-09-20T16:11:49Z, Brett Glass writes: > In a thread earlier this year, it was noted that /stand/sysinstall, by > default, sets most of the partitions it creates to use softupdates -- > except for the root, which is mounted noasync without softupdates. This > can lead to disaster if something on the root partition is being modified > during a sudden crash. From 'man 8 mount': noasync Metadata I/O should be done synchronously, while data I/O should be done asynchronously. This is the default. In other words, 'noasync' == 'sync'. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message