From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 6 15:53:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F153D15782 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:51:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18925; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:54:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:54:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Peter Jeremy , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick In-Reply-To: <19991006154419.O20768@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message