From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 00:58:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03304 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [209.81.9.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA03299 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id AAA06414 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:56:18 -0700 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:56:18 -0700 From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <199807210756.AAA06414@monk.via.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mount -o sync question X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The default mode of ufs filesystems is 'sync'? Yet if I examine the state of the mounted filesystem using the mount command, no indication is given of a filesystems (sync vs. async) state. Yet if I deliberately set the mode to 'sync', mount will now indicate that the filesystems are mounted synchronously. www# mount /dev/sd0a on / (local) /dev/sd0s1f on /usr (local, synchronous) /dev/sd0s1e on /var (local) procfs on /proc (local) /dev/sd1s1e on /home1 (local, synchronous) Why is this? This would seem to indicate the 'sync' is not really the default state of a filesystem (or at least that the sync 'bit' in whatever data structure that represents a mount point isn't normally set). Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message