From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 23:36:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE5F16A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:36:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mkbuelow.net) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBF043D53 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:36:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mkbuelow.net) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (p54AACB7C.dip.t-dialin.net [84.170.203.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07D92E762; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (mkb@localhost.mkbuelow.net [127.0.0.1]) by drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5INaHEH006253; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:36:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mkb@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net) Message-Id: <200506182336.j5INaHEH006253@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> From: Matthias Buelow To: "Darren Pilgrim" In-Reply-To: Message from "Darren Pilgrim" of "Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:48:13 PDT." <000701c57457$cf7dc4b0$0b2a15ac@SMILEY> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.84; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:36:17 +0200 Sender: mkb@mkbuelow.net Cc: lefty@asda.gr, 'Matthias Buelow' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with asyncoption X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:36:02 -0000 "Darren Pilgrim" writes: >No. With softupdates, file writes are asynchronous, but writes to >filesystem structures (metadata) are synchronous to prevent filesystem >corruption if the machine crashes. The async mount option writes both That's wrong. mkb.