On Thu, 20 May 1999, Gandhi woulda smacked you wrote:

> # Probably because of the synchronous meta-data writes.  Have you tried
> # restoring to a file system mounted -async and see what throughput you get?
> 
> If you're not mounted async, does this make "update" and "sync" relatively obsolete?

Speaking of which, how is softupdates integration coming along? We'd need
a kernelized 'syncer' process for that, right?

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