From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 9 05:55:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12678 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 05:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12673 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 05:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA08735; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 12:55:48 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA19812; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:55:11 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980609145511.49071@follo.net> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:55:11 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Lorenzo.Cavassa@ALPcom.IT Cc: katz@robotics.Stanford.EDU, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie 3 questions. References: <199806080349.UAA29145@grebe.Stanford.EDU> <199806080414.XAA01195@dyson.iquest.net> <19980608143347.59513@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Lorenzo Cavassa on Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:09:14PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:09:14PM +0100, Lorenzo Cavassa wrote: > 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? Add 'async' to your mount options. More information is available by looking at the manpages for mount and fstab. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message