Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:13:10 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1021486390.2f7bbb@mired.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My horror story Message-ID: <15580.3510.82702.122790@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr> References: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin> <20020510140222.M57329@lpt.ens.fr> <15580.1017.276905.556906@guru.mired.org> <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr>
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In <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> typed: > Mike Meyer said on May 10, 2002 at 12:31:37: > > Two, softupdates is not orthogonal to the sync/noasync/async > > mount flag. It turns those off when you do the mount, > If so, it's not documented in the tunefs(8), newfs(8) or mount(8) > manpages. True, and that needs to be fixed. Actually, in double-checking the source, I noticed I was only half right. Sync and async aren't opposites, but separate bits. Async is ignored when mounting a file system with softupdates set, but sync isn't. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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