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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:34:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Async mounts (Was:Re: FreeBSD is slower than Linux !?)
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You make a good argument. Frankly, I never thought of some of the more
useful ways to use async mounts. I stand chastened -- and more
knowledgeable. Thanks.

-- Jay

On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Julian Elischer wrote:

>Jay D. Nelson wrote:
>> 
>> My point was simply that when you put both under a real life multiuser
>> load, the differences are fairly obvious. And frankly, I wouldn't use
>> async mounts for anything other than news.
>> 
>> -- Jay
>
>I use them for /usr/obj or /usr/src for that matter 
>(I can always get it back from the cvs tree.)
>makes compiles al ot faster..
>I also switch to async mode whenever I have a massive rm -rf to do
>
>or for restores or unpacking packages and tar files etc..
>

-- Jay