From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 11:02:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0325916A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7E143FF7 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C87872DA3; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A59C72DA2; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:02:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Eno Thereska In-Reply-To: <3F5FCEB5.9010407@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <20030911110203.I61751@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <3F5FCEB5.9010407@andrew.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flush on close X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:02:51 -0000 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. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org