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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: async Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 01:50:16 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <32537E48.500F9F30@FreeBSD.org> References: <3252f11b.1314289@news.hol.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Sergios <sergios@prometheus.hol.gr> Sergios wrote: > I added an "async" option for the /usr and /usr/local filesystems in > /etc/fstab. the mount man page clearly states this as a BAD > thing....but! is it? is Ufs as rock solid as a ext2 flesystem? Do I > risk corrupting my filesystem? "BAD" is probably a bit strong. To be perfectly honest, most of us run our machines with async turned on now too and I, for one, have yet to experience any significant data loss, even with experimental kernels occasionally panic'ing my system. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project