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From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NOT Re: TCP latency
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:13:18 BST
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
> Even with -o async? Remember, BSD (conservatism warning again :)
> defaults to synchronous metadata updates. I know that several people
> run their development machines async, i do it myself for /tmp and some
> scratch file systems, or temporarily switch to async when removing a
> large subdir hierarchy. Since you happen to use both systems, it would
> be interesting whether it feels the same if you use async on both
> systems.
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nothing in the man pages or (very out of date) FAQ/Handbook about it.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?
>(Please folks, no debate again about the use{ful, less}ness of async
>metadata updates.)
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Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk