Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:08:18 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Gernot Hueber" <hueber@riic.at>, "De la Cruz Lugo Eric" <eric@iteso.mx>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article. Message-ID: <000001c0f561$92cfd220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010613134728.02940810@postoffice.riic.at>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gernot Hueber >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:49 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; De la Cruz Lugo Eric; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article. > > >Is there a comparision out there, where mount (a)sync modes are >taken care of. > >BTW how can I switch to async mode (softupdates or noatime)? > despite all the fanfare you don't want to run a production system async except in very specific circumstances, such as a Usenet News server. The Linux people do it because they are more concerned with looking good on these stupid comparisons than with reliability. If you need better disk performance then your much better off with sync mode+faster disks such as hardware RAID or running softupdates, in most circumstances. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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