From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 5 18:37:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA23473 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 18:37:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA23454; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 18:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA02427; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:42:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: Drew Derbyshire cc: hackers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount async and possible loss of F/S In-Reply-To: <199710060106.SAA21602@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk if you lose power during disk activity a LOT of changes might be funny on the disk and definetly in the directory where the disk activity was going on, you can loose a lot of files, but if you back up often it's a real speed increase... .________________________________________________________________________ __ _ |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin --"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?" |perlsta@sunyit.edu --"who was that masked admin?" |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta : ' On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > The mount command cheerfully states that the async option is not to be used > unless you are prepared to recreate the file system. Ummm, exactly > what is left so hanging in the wind that you lose the file system rather > than just the recent updates? > > Thanks > -ahd- >