Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:25:15 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie 3 questions. Message-ID: <19980609202515.A8489@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980609152526.19366H-100000@elect8>; from Nick Hibma on Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 03:28:47PM %2B0200 References: <qTEf18FWYK7H092yn@monviso.alpcom.it> <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980609152526.19366H-100000@elect8>
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According to Nick Hibma: > mount -o update,async /usr ; rm -rf /usr ; mount -o update,sync /usr The reverse of "async" is "noasync", not "sync" I believe. > If you have anything operational, DON'T USE ASYNC! You'll have 0 byte > files before you know it after a crash/unexpected reboot. And believe > me, you're going to search all over the place to find that one. Some of us have been using "async" mounts for years (including John Dyson) without losing anything. Before switching to softupdates, everything on my disks except /, /usr and /var were "async"... So YMMV :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #60: Fri May 15 21:04:22 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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