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From: Alex Nash <alex@fa.tdktca.com>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: async flag to mount(8)
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On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Matt Day (next cubicle over from mine) has implemented soft updates,
> though without some of my FS changes, they can not be integrated
> into FreeBSD.
> 
> An FS using soft updates operates within ~5% of memory speed, according
> to the Ganger/Patt paper from the University of Michigan.
> 
> This is faster than pure async because of write gathering during the
> soft update timer period.
> 
> Async sucks.  Get over it.

So async only sucks *when* we get your patches.  I'm sure Poul can't 
wait! :)

Alex