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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 1996 07:41:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: async flag to mount(8)
Message-ID:  <199607040541.HAA19380@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607031339.IAA08875@fa.tdktca.com> from Alex Nash at "Jul 3, 96 08:39:17 am"

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As Alex Nash wrote:

> > Has anyone ever had the stomach to mount a fs async? What have been 
> > your experiences?
> 
> At the risk of experiencing Terry's wrath :), async is very useful,
> and under *some* scenarios (like rm -rf), very fast.

Don't forget that you can do

	mount -o async -u /usr
	rm -rf /usr/obj
	...
	mount -o noasync -u /usr

as well.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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