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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dyson@freefall.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_lookup.c
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>>   Modified:    sys/ufs/ufs  ufs_lookup.c
>>   Log:
>>   This commit causes UFS to perform at Linux EXT2FS metadata rates.
>>   ...  Just use the -o async flag on the
>>   UFS mount.  Good luck...

>Great!

>I will stress-test this on my /tmp partition!

I think the MNT_ASYNC check in ffs_update() goes too far.  It stops
timestamps (and perhaps more important things) from being written
immediately even for sync() and fsync().

Bruce