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Date:      Wed, 09 Aug 1995 19:09:58 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        esser@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_inode.c 
Message-ID:  <199508100210.TAA00461@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 95 14:10:47 %2B0200." <199508091210.AA09425@Sysiphos> 

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>On Aug 3, 22:49, David Greenman wrote:
>} Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_inode.c
>} davidg      95/08/03 22:49:18
>} 
>}   Modified:    sys/ufs/ffs  ffs_inode.c
>}   Log:
>}   Use the correct flags (IO_SYNC -> B_SYNC) when deciding to do a sync or
>}   async write in the section that changes the filesize. The bug resulted
>}   in the updates always being async.
>
>What performance improvement is 
>to expect from that patch ?

   None at all. It isn't a performance change; it's a bugfix. The bug could
have resulted in certain types of FS corruption if the system crashed at just
the wrong time.

>I found that the "-async" option 
>made no difference at all !

   That's because it isn't implemented in the FreeBSD kernel. We will have
support for it when we integrate the 4.4BSD-Lite/2 changes.

-DG



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