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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 03:27:11 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Dairy Wall Limey <william@hq.newdream.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: soft-updates
Message-ID:  <15365.65391.233571.578799@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <124858950@toto.iv>

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Dairy Wall Limey <william@hq.newdream.net> types:
> i'm running freebsd 4.4 stable on two i386 boxes (my home and work
> workstations).  i setup soft updates on the /usr and /var partitions on
> both, but while typing 'mount' shows the 'soft-updates' option, it
> doesn't show syncronous vs asyncronous writes.  is this normal? i
> haven't really noticed an appreciable difference in performance when
> doing stuff with heavy disk io either.

If soft-udpates is enabled, async is ignored. In fact, the sync on a file
system has three modes: sync, soft-udpates, and async.

You might try mount -v to see if what you're looking for shows up for
the /, though.

> please cc me on reply (Mail-Followup-To should be set correctly), as i'm
> not on the list anymore.

That's sop on this list.

	<mike
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