*From: *Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]> >> I'm intrigued more about /usr/local/sync.. what is it exactly ? > > From the mount man page > > sync Regular data I/O to the file system should be done > synchronously. By default, only metadata is > read/written synchronously. > > If you add sync to the flags for /usr/local in /etc/fstab and possibly /var > for > the pkg database then fsck is far less likely to run into any issues on those > mounted filesystems but it will have a significant performance impact on > writes.
Got it, thanks for the details as well. dan
