On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me that David Scheidt remarked > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? > > Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done > asynchronously.
Even with SYNC mounts? (Not 'default', explicit 'sync'. It takes quite noticeable amounts of time to, for instance, install kernels.) From fstab: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw,sync 1 1 -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fulle...@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
