From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 03:44:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B8FF16A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 03:44:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB10343D53 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 03:44:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DbVmI-0007Cf-Iz; Thu, 26 May 2005 21:44:55 -0600 In-Reply-To: <42968AD4.3020603@centtech.com> References: <4295D51F.50106@centtech.com> <429606D9.6080602@cs.tu-berlin.de> <42960ACB.7090801@cs.tu-berlin.de> <42960CFE.4060307@centtech.com> <42960F8F.2050109@samsco.org> <42961195.30608@centtech.com> <429613FB.80100@samsco.org> <42968AD4.3020603@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Message-Id: From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:44:50 -0600 To: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Disable read/write caching to disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 03:44:56 -0000 On May 26, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: > > So it sounds dangerous, but not disastrous.. Sounds like soft- > updates would help this alot, so I'll turn them back on for this > filesystem (I typically do use it). > > At a minimum, it would be awesome to even have a way to do one host > rw and several doing ro. Think of the case of a web server farm, > where it's nearly all reads. > > Thanks for the details and information! use NFS or something. Not ideal but it allows you to have lots of clients using the same space without the disasters. Chad