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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NOT Re: TCP latency
Date: 19 Jul 1996 23:35:00 GMT
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searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle) wrote:

> So how do I either mount async, or temporarily switch to async? There's
> nothing in the man pages or (very out of date) FAQ/Handbook about it.
> I think it's something in the fstab for a permanently async FS?

	mount -o async -u /usr

...temporarily switches your /usr file system to async.  -o noasync
reverts to sync.

This is the /tmp entry from my fstab:

/dev/sd1h	/tmp	ufs	rw,async  0 1

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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