Subject: Re: soft updates and asynchronous writes
To: Peter Mancuso <unishell@hotmail.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/27/2001 18:29:37
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:26:09PM -0500, Peter Mancuso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for taking a look at my sysctl.conf files....and letting me know 
> which lines are relavent in netbsd...
> 
> about softupdates + asynch
> 
> I thought
> 
> # tunefs -n enable /usr
> and
> # mount -o async /usr /dev/ad0s1f
> 
> were two different things?
> 
> perhaps I am naive ......does netbsd support both of these?

Yes, but not at the same time. I'm almost sure that on FreeBSD if you do
mount a filesystem async then soft updates are not used as well.
async really means async :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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