From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 21:26:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD8B642E6 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:21:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.219.234.18] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id wa471402 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:19:26 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00363; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:20:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: "Scott Hess" , "John" , Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:18:56 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <389DDEFD.DBB63C7B@home.com> <00020803454401.00302@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <00e101bf7266$50e6d900$1e80000a@avantgo.com> In-Reply-To: <00e101bf7266$50e6d900$1e80000a@avantgo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00020819202001.00344@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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