From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 7 15:13:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A051580B for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:13:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA98107; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA76486; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:13:12 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick) Message-ID: <19991007151312.D68920@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <99Oct6.103524est.40351@border.alcanet.com.au> <99Oct6.145359est.40347@border.alcanet.com.au> <19991006154419.O20768@futuresouth.com> <99Oct7.085536est.40332@border.alcanet.com.au> <19991006181542.S20768@futuresouth.com> <99Oct7.115403est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <99Oct7.115403est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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