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To: "Steven D. Smith" <sds07@health.state.ny.us>
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <200012071528.KAA19604@gate1.health.state.ny.us> "Steven D. Smith" writes:
: What are 'softupdates'?

Briefly, they are a way of combining writes to disk so that fewer
writes happen for meta data.

Warner


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