From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat May 1 20:41:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from toetag.com (toetag.com [206.169.92.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB2314DE1 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@toetag.com) Received: from toetag.com (tom@localhost.toetag.com [127.0.0.1]) by toetag.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA09149; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905020341.UAA09149@toetag.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Brian O'Shea" Cc: FreeBSD Alpha Subject: Re: Softupdates on Alpha ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 May 1999 20:28:27 PDT." <19990501202827.U2844@localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 20:41:17 -0700 From: "Tom" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 01 May 1999 20:28:27 PDT, "Brian O'Shea" writes: >Not to mention on /tmp (the way you have it set up). >Do softupdates provide any performance benefit on MFS filesystems? > mfs:29 on /tmp (asynchronous, local, writes: sync 14 async 546) Hmm, I don't think I set tmp to do soft-updates, I think it mounts async by default. I just mount tmp on my swap partition since it's uh, temp :-) But who knows, I could have done it inadvertently when I brute-forced tunefs in /etc/rc. Can you actually do softupdates on the swap partition? -- tom@unhooked.net ICQ - 16163541 Get UnHOOKeD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message