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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:48:59 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs
Message-ID:  <14268.49546.349252.744818@avalon.east>

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: From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>

: Default for FreeBSD is async [meta]data and sync data. Sync and Async
: modes go full sync/async for both metadata and data...

: > Just a btw, you seem to be able to set sync and async on a filesystem
: > at the same time.  What gives?

: Beats me.

Logically, then, -o sync,async means asynchronous data, synchronous
metadata.  Seems very clean and orthogonal to me.  The way things
ought to be.  In practice I doubt the implementation is as described.






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