From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 19:44:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24896 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24879 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:44:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA10359; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:32:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdb10333; Mon Jan 11 03:32:44 1999 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:32:42 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: Frank Nobis , Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES In-Reply-To: <19990110210721.A24234@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Softupdates are usually as fast as async, but also give a safety guarantee. (unlike async) they CAN under some circumstances be much faster but on average it's similar. On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 11:00:59AM -0800, Julian Elischer woke me up to tell me: > > I hope you have it on your /usr/obj partition, because that's where it > > would be used and make a difference. It only affects writes. > > Does softupdates give any gain over async? > I have /usr/src and /usr/obj both mounted async, noatime, and it does > seem to be rather nicely fast over default mountops. > > > --- > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd | > * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * > | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | > * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * > | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | > * because I haven't figured out how to light the * > | middle yet" | > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message