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List:       freebsd-fs
Subject:    Re: Frequent Power Failures
From:       "Joshua Lewis" <jmlewis () dslextreme ! com>
Date:       2004-06-08 23:40:01
Message-ID: 1e0a1950a988aca8a.20040608164001.wzyrjvf () www ! dslextreme ! com
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I think I found the setting. Ironic is was the next setting. Is this the
correct setting to help prevent data loss (at from what I guess is a MAJOR
performance hit.)

hw.ata.wc




Thank you,
Joshua Lewis



Joshua Lewis
> My office is located in Southern California and of late we have had almost
> ten power failures.
>
> I have set up my first FreeBSD box and am learning quickly. If my memory
> serves I recall Unix writes to disk as little as possible to keep the
> system running at peak efficiency. However I don't want to risk data loss.
> So until I can get a UPS (that is absolutely next on my list) I want set
> the system to write to the disk as soon as possible.
>
> I am currently looking through sysctl in the handbook to find some setting
> that may enable writing data immediately.
>
> Am I in the correct place? There are A LOT of settings here can anyone
> point me to the correct setting so I don't spend the rest of my life
> reading.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Joshua Lewis
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