From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 30 20:52:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FFC37B8FD; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA71799; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:52:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA31984; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:51:55 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003310451.VAA31984@harmony.village.org> To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: SMP buildworld times / performance tests Cc: "David O'Brien" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.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> <200003300604.WAA68031@apollo.backplane.com> <20000330174453.D10480@futuresouth.com> <20000330160043.A57508@dragon.nuxi.com> <200003310058.RAA30753@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:51:55 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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