From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 08:23:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17507 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 08:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.jpunix.com (root@alpha.jpunix.com [199.3.234.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17501 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 08:23:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from perry@localhost) by alpha.jpunix.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA00409; Tue, 14 May 1996 10:22:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 10:21:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "John A. Perry" Reply-To: "John A. Perry" To: Terry Lambert cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: async filesystems In-Reply-To: <199605122305.QAA08690@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="cb4vXh+9a4h50D"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-md5 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This message is in PGP/MIME format, according to the Internet Draft draft-elkins-pem-pgp-03.txt. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/pgpmime.html --cb4vXh+9a4h50D Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 12 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I read the man page as you suggested and now I know it's a > > dangerous option. The question still remains, what is it, what does it = do > > for you, why use it, etc? I'm not asking the question because I feel a > > need to waste bandwidth. I'm asking because I want to know more about i= t. > > A little more verbiosity other than "read the man page" might even educ= ate > > others if you're not careful. >=20 >=20 > The option causes metadata writes to return after they have been > scheduled but before they have completed. [stuff deleted] > Hope this answers your questions... =09It sure did Terry! I really appreciate the response. Thanks. John Perry - KG5RG - perry@alpha.jpunix.com - PGP-encrypted e-mail welcom= e! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry@jpunix.com is on the keyservers. --cb4vXh+9a4h50D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZilG1OTpEThrthvAQHAwAP/WVSb5OM0CObCFb+N5xm6Ue3679TlGPmd NZzTDRFqVlTZF2oPcV3zB5F2h+jkwLyipkds+Q2vweOY2xKHrzAZ4lpn+YZncKlZ 9t9LImaxbeDw/d1QXg5hf4j98WGNl+vXyJe0XWKwMyJQsBnL49i7j06vSS0j3Eos fhTu+EpCxeA= =eDth -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cb4vXh+9a4h50D--