Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:06:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Richard Stanaford <rsstan@yahoo.com> Cc: Paul Coyne <pac@geodesic.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cached versus non cached disk I/O Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007112104540.21996-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000712025107.15159.qmail@web3106.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Richard Stanaford wrote: > --- Tom <tom@uniserve.com> 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? Yes it does, but I made no statement saying it was fragile or not. It should be obvious that write-buffering metadata can cause problems, even with softupdates, though softupdates is clearly better than async. > -Richard Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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