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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!! Date: 4 Aug 1995 14:51:40 +0200 Organization: Support The Free UNIX Systems Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3vt54s$mr9@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <3urlmb$7co@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> <3v30fc$ep4@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> <3v67kl$inn@blob.best.net> <3va7hn$2ha@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <3va7hn$2ha@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > It's mostly religious. It should really be made a (mount-time) > option. So you could turn synch updates off at least for things like > /tmp or /var/spool/news. The option has been here since (async) in /etc/fstab but is almost a no-op in 4.4BSD-lite (and so in FreeBSD). I think 4.4BSD-Lite2 has a fix for it that I just saw incorporated in 2.2-CURRENT by David Greenman. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- Herve Schauer Consultants -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-