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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:02:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Eno Thereska <eno@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: flush on close
Message-ID:  <20030911110203.I61751@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F5FCEB5.9010407@andrew.cmu.edu>
References:  <3F5FCEB5.9010407@andrew.cmu.edu>

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Remove -fs. Don't crosspost, please.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Eno Thereska wrote:

> In FreeBSD 4.4, I am noticing a huge number of calls
> to ffs_fsync() (in /sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c)
> when running a benchmark like Postmark.

Were you using softupdates, or the sync or async mount options?

I believe this is correct (and safe) behavior for the default case.

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