From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 29 13:31:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03647 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03632 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA09317; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:30:33 -0500 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id PAA03556; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:32:26 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199605292032.PAA03556@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 29 May 96 15:32:24 CDT Cc: rashid@rk.ios.com, davidg@Root.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605292024.NAA14236@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 29, 96 01:24:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > David, could you submit those patches ? May be we can even add > > this as an OPTION to the kernel config file? > > There is a school of thought that says "shall be updated" in POSIX is > not the same as "shall be committed to stable storage" (the traditional > BSD implementation). > > This would let access times be updated in core, but only scheduled to > be written at a later time (not forced out immediately). For some of us, with maxxed out disks, the most desirable "a later time" is sometime between when hell freezes over and eternity's end. Although it would be nice to have it both ways. ;-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847