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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.uoregon.edu!tera.mcom.com!news.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: NOT Re: TCP latency Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <DutHH3.IwE@kithrup.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4slan6$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <nF05CBB68@longacre.demon.co.uk> <4sp634$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 01:00:38 GMT Lines: 25 In article <4sp634$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > mount -o async -u /usr > >...temporarily switches your /usr file system to async. -o noasync >reverts to sync. To clarify, you need the "-u" flag -- it means "update". So you would use: mount -u -o async /usr prior to restoring a backup, and mount -u -o noasync /usr when you were done ;). >This is the /tmp entry from my fstab: > >/dev/sd1h /tmp ufs rw,async 0 1 Er... why not just use a swap filesystem (mfs)? Understanding that MFS means you have less total memory on your system, but I'd think you could use /dev/sd1h as swap space as well, no?