From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 19:37:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA14013 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 19:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (h196-7-192-139.iafrica.com [196.7.192.139]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA14008 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 19:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id EAA05922; Sun, 12 May 1996 04:34:45 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199605120234.EAA05922@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: async filesystems? To: perry@alpha.jpunix.com Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 04:34:44 +0200 (SAT) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605112140.OAA06879@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 11, 96 02:40:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > [John A. Perry wrote:] > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I've seen several references to async filesystems. What are they, > > how do they work, how do you set them up, where can I read about them, > > etc? > > It's a mount option. man mount. For some reading on why '-o async' may be A Bad Thing, see the 'fsck' paper: /usr/share/doc/smm/03.fsck/paper.ascii.gz -- Robert Nordier