From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 21 8: 1:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01BEF37B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:01:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3LF1Kv75829; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:01:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Alfred Perlstein , niek@bergboer.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS block size vs. write speed Message-ID: <20010421080120.C72704@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20010420144543.F30241@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> <20010420055426.Q1790@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010420152029.A35974@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> <20010420093530.A98970@cec.wustl.edu> <20010420075203.T1790@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010420104748.A99196@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010420104748.A99196@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:47:48AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:47:48AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > I do see both synchronous writes and asynchronous writes on my > filesystem (as reported by mount); what are these? The default mount is "nosync". synchronous metadata, asynchronous data. Compare with the "async" and "sync" mount options. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message