Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 00:50:52 -0500 From: Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net> To: Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and mount options... Message-ID: <199805190550.AAA06067@set.spradley.tmi.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 21:36:59 PDT." <35610C6B.5ED4201@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>
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> I never told the system (through fstab), to mount sync or async. > I added softupdates today and put sync under the mount options > just to be safe, but now it appears to actually make the system > slower ? Is this because the system default to async ? Um, sync and async are not a binary choice. Normal is sorta in between sync and async. As I understand it, the sync option requires that the write(2) call doesn't return to the process until the data and metadata is safely written to the disk. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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