Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 08:28:00 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: mango@staff.communique.net, freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel optimization and PCI ... Message-ID: <7110.848215680@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Nov 1996 09:52:20 %2B1100." <199611162252.JAA30586@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199611162252.JAA30586@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>Doing a df forces all metadate to be written, that takes time. Watch >>with systat(1) and you can see it happen. > >It does? Where? ffs_statfs seems to just copy some data. df does a >full sync for non-mounted file systems. Huh, sync of non-mounted file systems ? How could you possibly do that... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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