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To: Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: softupdates and mount options... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 21:36:59 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 02:09:25 -0700
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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 ?

   "sync" means something altogether different. Take that out.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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