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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4sp634$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <31E80933.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4saf55$dl5@verdi.nethelp.no> <87k9w6g6u4.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <31E9D0CC.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <87ybklz05q.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <31EAD699.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <87ohle1v5h.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <4slan6$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <nF05CBB68@longacre.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 nothing in the man pages or (very out of date) FAQ/Handbook about it.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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)