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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2001 20:52:02 -0700
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Tadayuki OKADA <tadayuki@mediaone.net>, stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: soft update should be default
Message-ID:  <3AF378E2.5040700@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <200105050142.f451gsl05388@mass.dis.org>

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Mike Smith wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> Why 'soft update' is not default?
>> It adds performance and stability, doesn't it?
> 
> 
> It requires disabling of write caching, which typically reduces 
> performance (significantly).
> 
Why wouldn't a similar requirement (disabling write caching) apply to 
non-softupdates filesystems? The disk doesn't know whether the write is 
synchronous or not, after all.



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