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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
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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?