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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:17:48 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates...
Message-ID:  <38AEFA6C.58CE6857@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002181507120.1712-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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Tom wrote:
> 
> > 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.

I read the docs and the paper.

It has been empirically shown that this is not the case. 'nuff said.

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