From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 10:35:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA9A14D26 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11TqG8-0004AO-00; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:32:48 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Alexander Maret Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: softupdates: do I understand this correctly? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:21:31 +0200." <58A002A02C5ED311812E0050044517F00D23B9@erlangen01.axis.de> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:32:48 +0200 Message-ID: <16019.938021568@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:21:31 +0200, Alexander Maret wrote: > advantage of softupdates: - in case of a crash it is more likely that > every data is already been written to disk because the system writes > data in one go and doesn't have to wait i.e. for a program output > while there is an open file. It isn't more likely that _all_ the data will have been written to the disk. It's just more likely that whatever's state the disk is in will be consistent. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message