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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:54:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make install trick
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061853200.18401-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991006154419.O20768@futuresouth.com>

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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> Indeed.
> Thus:
> /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100)
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Though I'm still waiting for an explanation of WHY exactly I have async
> writes on a sync partition.   Nobody yet has said anything but 'that's
> interesting...'.  A direction to look would be helpful.

I believe "synchronous" refers only to metadata writes.  So it would
follow that the async writes are non-metadata writes.

--
 Ben Rosengart

UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.



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