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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:15:17 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: async isn't all that async?
Message-ID:  <15312.42485.787982.914840@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <18948746@toto.iv>

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David E. Cross <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> types:
> I was doing a profile recently between FreeBSD and Linux and I notice that
> FreeBSD's -o async really isn't that async.  Specifically the Linux operation
> completed and then 15 seconds later the disk writes were committed, under
> FreeBSD many of the operations seemed to be waiting on disk (I ktraced, 
> no mention of '-i sync' in anything... so no open options, to fcntl()s).
> 
> Could someone shed a bit of light on this?

Do you have softupdates enabled on the file system in question? If so,
async in them mount request is ignored.

	<mike
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