Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:14:43 +0500 From: rihad <rihad@mail.ru> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Is it preferable to use the sync command? Message-ID: <4A41E073.70902@mail.ru>
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Hi, all, Having experienced a FreeBSD 5.1 crash due to power failure (despite using a UPS) resulting in massive /etc corruption and data loss, in order to minimize future risks should I: 0) tweak (decrease) these default sysctls: kern.filedelay: 30 kern.dirdelay: 29 kern.metadelay: 28 1) mount the root FS with soft-updates enabled (left as disabled in sysinstall by default due to known reasons) 2) setup a cron job calling /bin/sync every minute I somehow feel that turning soft-updates on would do the trick (it is not normally written to and has plenty of free space anyway). Thanks in advance for any educated tips.home | help
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