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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 1996 08:39:17 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Alex Nash <alex@fa.tdktca.com>
To:        dunn@harborcom.net
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   async flag to mount(8)
Message-ID:  <199607031339.IAA08875@fa.tdktca.com>

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> Has anyone ever had the stomach to mount a fs async? What have been 
> your experiences?

At the risk of experiencing Terry's wrath :), async is very useful,
and under *some* scenarios (like rm -rf), very fast.  I think (almost)
everyone agrees that it's risky, but for filesystems such as /tmp one
really shouldn't care.

Alex



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