>   So, am I misunderstanding what synchronous mode means?
>

Perhaps you're confusing journaling file system supprt on Solaris UFS and
Linux XFS or EXTFS3 or Veritas FXFS with a "transaction log" that you can
'roll' w/ simple BSD FFS 'softdeps'

-lava

>   (I realize that I shouldn't need to mount synchronously, but
> ordinary no-softdep-mounts have gone to manual fsck often enough on
> this box that it makes the box not reliable as a turnkey solution for
> folks who don't appreciate Unix.)
>
>   Thanks!
>
>   Brian Grayson
>
>

--Brian

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