From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 1:27:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C159537B425 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:27:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19309 invoked by uid 100); 29 Nov 2001 09:27:11 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15365.65391.233571.578799@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 03:27:11 -0600 To: Dairy Wall Limey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: soft-updates In-Reply-To: <124858950@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dairy Wall Limey 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message