From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 9 05:51:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11505 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 05:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from email.alpcom.it (email.alpcom.it [193.42.134.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA11395 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 05:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Lorenzo.Cavassa@ALPcom.IT) Received: from monviso.alpcom.it by ALPCOM.IT (PMDF V5.1-9 #23639) with SMTP id <01IY1BKIPF5S004E9Z@ALPCOM.IT> for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:50:11 MET Received: by monviso.alpcom.it (950911.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH825/940406.SGI) id MAA15380; Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:49:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 21:09:14 +0100 From: Lorenzo.Cavassa@ALPcom.IT (Lorenzo Cavassa) Subject: Re: Newbie 3 questions. In-reply-to: <19980608143347.59513@follo.net> To: eivind@yes.no Cc: katz@robotics.Stanford.EDU, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: Lorenzo.Cavassa@ALPcom.IT Message-id: Organization: ALPnet - The Network Provider MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Yarn 0.92 with YES 0.22 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Editor: VIM 5.0 - http://www.vim.org X-PGP-Key-fingerprint: 203C 79AE 2A7A 6147 D4A8 8BEE D26A 06EB X-Mobile-Phone: +39 347 2731795 - SMS welcomed! Lines: 19 References: <199806080349.UAA29145@grebe.Stanford.EDU> <199806080414.XAA01195@dyson.iquest.net> <19980608143347.59513@follo.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19980608143347.59513@follo.net>, you wrote: : On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 11:14:29PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: : > for massive filesystem manipulations. FreeBSD consiously chooses : > the conservative policy though. : : ... and (as John well knows) it can be tuned to run an async policy : similar to the one in Linux. Which policy you run is a tradeoff how? thanx! Lorenzo -- ============================================================ Key fingerprint : 203C 79AE 2A7A 6147 D4A8 8BEE D26A 06EB KeyID : 1024/833FB7FD -- Key available on keyservers ============================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message