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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:56:59 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        fn@Radio-do.de, fullermd@futuresouth.com, julian@whistle.com
Cc:        culverk@wam.umd.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SOFTUPDATES
Message-ID:  <199901111356.AAA06651@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Does softupdates give any gain over async?
>I have /usr/src and /usr/obj both mounted async, noatime, and it does
>seem to be rather nicely fast over default mountops.

Async isn't fully async in FreeBSD (some directory operations are still
sync), so softupdates is much faster in some cases.  Fully async async
seems to be a little faster than softupdates.

Bruce

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