Re: magic sysrq keys functionality

From: Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_es.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:00:39 -0700
> From: bugghy <bugghy_at_home.ro>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:53:02 +0000
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> 
> 
> 	So, what would be a convenient way to protect a 5.x release against
> data loss / corruption in case of frequent powerfaillures. (a software
> method)

Turn off write-cache on the disks. hw.ata.wc="0" in /boot/loader.conf
(But be prepared to suffer the consequences to disk performance.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman_at_es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Received on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 17:00:40 UTC

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