Question about file system checks

[Ivan Voras]

On 28/03/2008, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:

>  I know this sounds pretty awful, but honestly any file modified
>  within an hour and not fsync'd being "lost" is not really a bad
>  thing.
>
>  It's pretty much "the unix way" that only fsync'd files/directories
>  or file modified more than several minutes ago are safe.

I agree. My intention in doing these benchmarks was to have something
on which I'd base a recommendation for a file server. My conclusion is
that UFS+SU is reliable enough, though not as fast as other file
systems.