Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:08:20 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002181507120.1712-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <38ACAF8B.65E314E9@newsguy.com>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > > Not really. You could just use async updates instead of softupdates. > > Or an OS that uses async updates. Write caching metadata is always faster > > than re-ordering it intelligently. > > Softupdates reduces the number of writes needed. It can coalesce writes > to the same block. Async updates are always as fast as softupdates, if not faster. You should read the softupdates docs. > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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