From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 16:18:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A64BA37B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57520 invoked by uid 100); 30 May 2001 23:18:16 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15125.32696.816816.201274@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:18:16 -0500 To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remount Filesystems In-Reply-To: <47023858@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran types: > dannyman wrote: > What I just became curious about is: would it be possible to mount a > filesystem both async and softupdates, and would there be any advantage? You can make the mount system call requesting async on a file system that has softupdates enabled, but it won't have any effect. The kernel will quietly turns off the ASYNC bit for the mount call. Look in sys/ufs/ffs/kern_vfsops.c for details. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message