From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 21 10:46:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28065 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28056 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wqMQY-0001OB-00; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:39:18 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:39:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Alfred Perlstein cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File systems slowness? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote: ... > doesn't freebsd have write-behind caching? or does it need to be enabled > seperately? Directory meta information is written immediately to disk. If it wasn't, you risk severe file system damage during a power failure. See the man page for mount on how to mount stuff async, and for more warnings on the risks. > Alfred Perlstein > perlsta@sunyit.edu > > > Tom