Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:51:55 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP buildworld times / performance tests Message-ID: <200003310451.VAA31984@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:43:07 PST." <200003310143.RAA71466@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200003310143.RAA71466@apollo.backplane.com> <20000330180402.E10480@futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003301158360.14426-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> <200003300604.WAA68031@apollo.backplane.com> <20000330174453.D10480@futuresouth.com> <20000330160043.A57508@dragon.nuxi.com> <200003310058.RAA30753@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200003310143.RAA71466@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: : Async should not be used unless you really like restoring crashed : filesystems from tape :-). Oh, and perhaps when one is doing an : initial OS install from CDRom :-). Async itself will not cause a crash, : but if your machine crashes in the middle of a bunch of async writes : you might end up with an unrecoverable filesystem. Sure makes those restores from backup tapes run fast, however :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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