From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 23:40:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6CC16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:40:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.dslextreme.com (mail5.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9259D43D2F for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:40:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmlewis@dslextreme.com) Received: (qmail 30628 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2004 23:40:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.dslextreme.com) (66.51.199.92) by 192.168.8.93 with SMTP; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:40:00 +0000 Message-ID: <1e0a1950a988aca8a.20040608164001.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> In-Reply-To: <834a6ebea29b3a375fa.20040608163505.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <834a6ebea29b3a375fa.20040608163505.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joshua Lewis" To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org User-Agent: DSL Extreme Webmail (www.dslextreme.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: Frequent Power Failures X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:40:01 -0000 I think I found the setting. Ironic is was the next setting. Is this the correct setting to help prevent data loss (at from what I guess is a MAJOR performance hit.) hw.ata.wc Thank you, Joshua Lewis Joshua Lewis > My office is located in Southern California and of late we have had almost > ten power failures. > > I have set up my first FreeBSD box and am learning quickly. If my memory > serves I recall Unix writes to disk as little as possible to keep the > system running at peak efficiency. However I don't want to risk data loss. > So until I can get a UPS (that is absolutely next on my list) I want set > the system to write to the disk as soon as possible. > > I am currently looking through sysctl in the handbook to find some setting > that may enable writing data immediately. > > Am I in the correct place? There are A LOT of settings here can anyone > point me to the correct setting so I don't spend the rest of my life > reading. > > > Thank you, > Joshua Lewis > > > > >