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Date:      Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:41:04 +0100
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Mike Batchelor <smujohnson@home.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory Caching
Message-ID:  <20001111184104.A13422@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <20001111021530.M11449@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:15:30AM -0800
References:  <003201c04c8a$9209fda0$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com> <20001111021530.M11449@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Sat, 11-Nov-2000 at 02:15:30 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> So either:
> 1) read /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates and enable softupdates
> -or-
> 2) mount your filesystems 'async' which can cause serious problems
>    if you happen to crash while it's 'async'
> 
> option 1 is a better idea. :)
> 
> you may also want to try this setting:
> 
> sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1

Is somewhere documented what this does and if it is dangerous?
It is not in the manpages...

Thanks,

	-Andre


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