Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:29:53 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Steven D. Smith" <sds07@health.state.ny.us>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates? Message-ID: <200012101829.eBAITso33172@curve.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <uoc66kuqleh.fsf@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> "from Nat Lanza at Dec 8, 2000 11:16:38 pm"
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Nat Lanza writes: > > Briefly, they are a way of combining writes to disk so that fewer > > writes happen for meta data. > > There's also the "and ordering writes so that the disk is left in a > consistent state after each write, preventing filesystem damage in a > crash without the slowdown associated with a synchronous filesystem" > part, which I think is really most important. Maybe there should be a softupdates man page. No I'm not volunteering :-) -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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