On Sep 5, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Juan RP wrote:

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> Hi, the following patch will add:
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> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/xtraeme/syncfs_sysctl.diff
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> [juan@Nocturno][~]> sysctl -a|grep syncfs
> kern.syncfs.syncdelay = 30
> kern.syncfs.filedelay = 30
> kern.syncfs.dirdelay = 15
> kern.syncfs.metadelay = 10
> [juan@Nocturno][~]>

How about vfs.syncfs ?

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> It will modify the values defined in sys/miscfs/syncfs/sync_subr.c:
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> time_t syncdelay = 30;   /* max time to delay syncing data */
> time_t filedelay = 30;     /* time to delay syncing files */
> time_t dirdelay  = 15;     /* time to delay syncing directories */
> time_t metadelay = 10;  /* time to delay syncing metadata */
>
> FYI FreeBSD has implemented that too, but with different nodes:
>
> kern.{dir,file,meta}_delay.
>
> What do you think? is it useful for anyone?
>
> Thanks.

-- thorpej