From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 13:24:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BE537B402 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B48BE2F; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21863; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:24:07 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2FLQra62148; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:26:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: jre@globalnet.co.uk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of mount -v References: <3C91ED03.460141A8@globalnet.co.uk> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 15 Mar 2002 13:26:53 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3C91ED03.460141A8@globalnet.co.uk> Message-ID: <8t8z8ted42.z8t@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Ekins writes: > I understand that ufs is mounted sync unless you tell it to use async. So > I'm guessing (and I'm probably wrong) that the async is something to do > with softupdates. Just being curious. The "mount" manual has a bit to say about sync/async/noasync. They have nothing directly to do with softupdates except (IIRC) that those mount options are ignored with softupdates. These should help: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message