From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 7: 4:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274D414C91 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id PAA16022; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:03:41 GMT Message-ID: <36ED214D.7B2E280F@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:03:41 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fritz Heinrichmeyer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting volumes with async option dangerous? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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