>Does softupdates give any gain over async? >I have /usr/src and /usr/obj both mounted async, noatime, and it does >seem to be rather nicely fast over default mountops.
Async isn't fully async in FreeBSD (some directory operations are still sync), so softupdates is much faster in some cases. Fully async async seems to be a little faster than softupdates. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
