From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 4:45:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand4.global.net.uk (sand4.global.net.uk [195.147.246.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D911C37B402 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:45:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.126.80.200] (helo=globalnet.co.uk) by sand4.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 16lr5Q-0002Bk-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:45:32 +0000 Message-ID: <3C91ED03.460141A8@globalnet.co.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:45:55 +0000 From: John Ekins Reply-To: jre@globalnet.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Explanation of mount -v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, The man page for mount says -v means verbose mode, but can someone explain what the writes and reads sync and async means? /dev/ad0s1f on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates, writes: sync 44781 async 134493, reads: sync 20143 async 4367) I understand that ufs is mounted sync unless you tell it to use async. So I'm guessing (and I'm probably wrong) that the async is something to do with softupdates. Just being curious. Cheers, John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message