>
> On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:57:23PM +1000, a little birdie told me
> that Peter Jeremy remarked
> >
> > I guess we disagree on this. My feeling is that write activity on
> > root should be minimised to minimise the risk that root will be
> > inconsistent following a crash.
>
> Indeed.
> Thus:
> /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Though I'm still waiting for an explanation of WHY exactly I have async
> writes on a sync partition. Nobody yet has said anything but 'that's
> interesting...'. A direction to look would be helpful.
>
My understanding was that that was just a indication of writes that were
able to be done asynchronously without any risk, so they were done async.
(sync isn't purely sync, only synchronous when it's required for integrity)
Kevin
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