Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:18:56 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: "Scott Hess" <scott@avantgo.com>, "John" <freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? Message-ID: <00020819202001.00344@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <00e101bf7266$50e6d900$1e80000a@avantgo.com> References: <389DDEFD.DBB63C7B@home.com> <00020803454401.00302@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <00e101bf7266$50e6d900$1e80000a@avantgo.com>
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On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Scott Hess wrote: > Add 'async' to the options section of /etc/fstab. Where it was probably > just 'rw', now it would be 'rw,async'. > > WARNING: Async means that if the computer crashes or the power fails, you > are much more likely to have fsck problems on reboot. FreeBSD by default > wants to force writes of metadata (information about a file) to disk before > proceeding, whereas the data in the file can be written out of order as > needed to make things efficient. Mounting async means that data and > metadata is all written in the most efficient manner - but it also means > that metadata may be written out of order or not at all if there is a > panic. > Thanks, I'll bear that in mind. I'm not in a crushing hurry for speed, was just asking because I didn't see it when I did a 'man fstab'. Thanks for the info. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. If you were wondering, the answer is 42. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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