On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >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.
That's very arbitrary, softupdates can collaps and queue operations and be much faster, it just depends on your operations. -Alfred > > Bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
