From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 10 10:29:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 10:29:55 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430E937B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:29:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA94855; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBAITso33172; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200012101829.eBAITso33172@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: Softupdates? In-Reply-To: "from Nat Lanza at Dec 8, 2000 11:16:38 pm" To: Nat Lanza Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:29:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: Warner Losh , "Steven D. Smith" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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