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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:00:23 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat <mojahed@citechco.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UFS more susceptible? 
Message-ID:  <199911161900.LAA10632@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Nov 1999 01:00:30 %2B0600." <19991117010030.11408@cosmos.net> 

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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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