On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Technolord wrote:
> What are soft updates?

A mechanism that maintains order of delayed writes. This guarantees that
the on-disk content is always in a recoverable state.

> Okay, this explains the write part, but not the "no read caching", or
> "too small to be noticeable". I tried it again without luck, if I read a
> file, and then re-read it (file, directory, whatever), the disk gets
> accessed again. 

Hum, what mount options do you have ? 

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