From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 20 09:01:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20859 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 09:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20736 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 09:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA28005; Wed, 20 May 1998 11:59:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:59:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Ted Spradley cc: Jason Nordwick , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and mount options... In-Reply-To: <199805190550.AAA06067@set.spradley.tmi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 May 1998, Ted Spradley wrote: > > I never told the system (through fstab), to mount sync or async. > > I added softupdates today and put sync under the mount options > > just to be safe, but now it appears to actually make the system > > slower ? Is this because the system default to async ? > > Um, sync and async are not a binary choice. Normal is sorta in > between sync and async. The opposite of "async" being "noasync", correct? The man page to mount could be clearer on this subject. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message