From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 19:18: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web3106.mail.yahoo.com (web3106.mail.yahoo.com [204.71.202.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04DD537B828 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:18:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsstan@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000712025107.15159.qmail@web3106.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [150.159.224.8] by web3106.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:51:07 PDT Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:51:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Stanaford Subject: Re: Cached versus non cached disk I/O To: Tom , Paul Coyne Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Tom wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Paul Coyne wrote: > The filesystem can be put into async (or softupdates) mode so that > local metadata update functions return before the metadata is actualy > written to disk. Doesn't 'asyncing' the filesystem make it more fragile? Or did I read the Handbook/Making the World section wrong? -Richard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message