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From: Alex Nash <alex@fa.tdktca.com>
To: dunn@harborcom.net
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: async flag to mount(8)
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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