Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:32:42 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Frank Nobis <fn@Radio-do.de>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901101831230.278-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990110210721.A24234@futuresouth.com>
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Softupdates are usually as fast as async, but also give a safety guarantee. (unlike async) they CAN under some circumstances be much faster but on average it's similar. On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 11:00:59AM -0800, Julian Elischer woke me up to tell me: > > I hope you have it on your /usr/obj partition, because that's where it > > would be used and make a difference. It only affects writes. > > Does softupdates give any gain over async? > I have /usr/src and /usr/obj both mounted async, noatime, and it does > seem to be rather nicely fast over default mountops. > > > --- > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd | > * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * > | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | > * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * > | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | > * because I haven't figured out how to light the * > | middle yet" | > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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