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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2006 17:31:18 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: md /tmp and async mounts
Message-ID:  <20060523173118.371a283e@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060523141757.GA2966@gothmog.pc>
References:  <20060522211223.GA3621@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060522231437.GC1446@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20060523133037.GA2908@gothmog.pc> <20060523143013.GA11472@ci0.org> <20060523141757.GA2966@gothmog.pc>

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Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> (Tue, 23 May 2006 17:17:57 +0300):

> >
> > The sys/dev/md/md.c rev 1.115 commit log says async used to be
> > the default, but was switched off because it was causing
> > deadlocks. Did this get fixed since ?
> 
> I am not sure.  If a deadlock *does* exist though, then it's not
> an improvement and we should definitely keep the default to its
> current state until the bug is fixed.

AFAIK it isn't. Therefore we have
   http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/index.html#p-mdfs

Bye,
Alexander.

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