Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:13:12 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)
Message-ID: <19991007151312.D68920@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> >mount(8): > > sync All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. > > How detailed should the man page be? If it stated "all file data will > be written synchronously, but inodes where the only update is atime > and free block bitmaps are written asynchronously", would that be any > clearer to a user who didn't have a detailed understanding of UFS? Yes. I know the difference between sync/async and data/metadata. I haven't however, done a though wall-thru of the UFS code. If the manpage says "All I/O", then the system should do *ALL* I/O sync. This isn't Linux. Guess I go off editing mount(8) again. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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