Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:03:41 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting volumes with async option dangerous? Message-ID: <36ED214D.7B2E280F@tdx.co.uk> References: <ufhfrmize6.fsf@jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de>
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Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: > As far as i understand it now, the performance advantage of linux over > freebsd comes from asyncron io operations which are disabled by default > under freebsd and are discouraged by the mount manual .. > > Is somebody using freebsd with async-io enabled for a longer period? If you move to 3.1 you can get the 'best of both worlds' (some would say probably 'better') by using sofupdates, which is (at a basic level) similar to async i/o but without the risk... :-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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