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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 1995 20:49:37 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        hasty@star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty), hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why IDE is bad 
Message-ID:  <199503230449.UAA02420@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 95 21:29:58 MST." <9503230429.AA16722@cs.weber.edu> 

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>> > What do you mean "async mounts"?
>> 
>> mount -o async /dev/ ...
>
>Does nothing.  The 'async' option if for when a process is around to
>do retries.  Remote file system only, since a local file system will
>just mount successfully.
>
>Why, what do you think it should *do* instead?

   It should do what the manual page says it does, which is to force all I/O
to the filesystem to be done asynchronously.

-DG



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