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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!rnzll3!sys3.pe1chl!rob From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Organization: PE1CHL Message-ID: <DpGMoL.F7w@pe1chl.ampr.org> References: <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <4k0m0f$68j@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4k0r5l$g2@siberia.gtri.gatech.edu> <4k3rha$m9t@clark.net> <4k3scl$qc9@hoopoe.psc.edu> <316617F4.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 21:36:20 GMT Lines: 35 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14299 comp.os.linux.development.system:20969 comp.os.linux.x:28957 comp.os.linux.hardware:35860 comp.os.linux.setup:49708 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:510 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3077 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2856 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16974 In <316617F4.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >Peter Berger wrote: >> Linux uses asynchronous metadata updates, which the *BSD crowd has >> always insisted puts you at a greater risk of losing data in the >> event of a crash. My understanding is that FreeBSD will be making >> this an option...whether async metadata updates are an improvement >> or not depends on your needs. I certainly will like having the >> option, anyway. >This is already the case in 2.2 (and has been retrofitted into >2.1-stable, from which the next mainstream release will be derived). >You can tweak the bit on and off for a given filesystem and visually see >the difference as something like a large tar file extracts - it's quite >impressive. Simply: > mount -u -o async /some/existing/fs >To turn it on for a filesystem that's already mounted, or live a little >more dangerously and add it to the filesystem options in /etc/fstab. >The installation (sysinstall) is one area where the new async feature is >used - all filesystems are initially mounted async during extraction of >the release since if the power goes out during installation you can >simply install again. The increase in installation speed is strikingly >noticable! There is no need to convince us (the Linux crowd), we have already lived with this increased speed for nearly 4 years! Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+