Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:56:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dg@root.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre Message-ID: <199701132056.NAA28192@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701130130.MAA13813@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 13, 97 12:00:40 pm
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> > I have had delays on the order of a minute when umounting my JAZ disk. > > Sounds like you have a bug in your FS patches then. I beat the living > crap out of mine on a regular basis (eg. 'make build' for NetBSD NFS > clients, FreeBSD CVS repository, etc.), and 'umount' invariably gives > a quick squitter and then the drive is ready to eject. Sorry, but my patches aren't in this particular kernel... > Huh? How do "other BSD's" handle reading the media size from a drive > that handles variable size media? I think you're dreaming again. They don't attempt to read it until they verify that media is present. > > In any case, I have to wait a long time. NetBSD and OpenBSD running > > on the same hardware do not have the same delay. > > ... probably because you're not running with your hacked kernel on them. Actually, the OpenBSD code *does* have my patches appied to it... OpenBSD uses a different VM. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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