Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:19:46 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md devices mounted with async Message-ID: <48545212.4040006@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080614224742.17316919@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20080614224742.17316919@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW wrote: > mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the > async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode > devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write > to a physical disk. Well, for vnode devices it does write to the disk, but that isn't the point; in both cases you are writing to the filesystem that is mounted on top of the md, so that will be faster if it is mounted async. Kris
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