From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Mar 24 07:42:23 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA04711 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 07:42:23 -0800
Received: from deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA04703 for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 07:42:12 -0800
Received: (from richard@localhost) by deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.6.10/8.6.9) id PAA05826; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:41:35 GMT
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:41:35 GMT
Message-Id: <199503241541.PAA05826@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad
To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Thu, 23 Mar 95 9:42:54 MST
Organization: just say no
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> I don't think "async" should be an option, and if it must stay, at
> least say "DANGER! MOUNTING /dev/whazzit ASYNC!".

The async option is extremely useful on systems where it works.  It
can make restore 10 times faster on a Sun, for example (just let me
repeat that: *10 times faster*).  Obviously it's dangerous, but the
situations in which it's useful are generally the ones where the
danger doesn't matter, such as restoring a complete filesystem.

-- Richard