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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:22:16 -0800
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
To:        Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@mpcs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best mount options, tunefs for newsserver 
Message-ID:  <199611100822.AAA18791@MindBender.serv.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 09 Nov 96 16:59:40 -0500. <199611092159.QAA12488@penny.n2wx.ampr.org> 

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>Trying to tweak the newsserver here.  I have the slices that are
>hammered all mounted async (are they really working async?  is there a
>way to tell?).  Any other useful mount options for a local fs?

I think so.  I run my NetBSD box this way, and it's pretty obvious
sometimes that it's async.  For example, copy a big directory of lots
of files (like /usr/src/) to somewhere, sync it and let it settle,
then rm -rf it.  It should finish really quickly, then a burst of disk
activity when sync time comes.

I'll also note that I haven't had any reliability problems running
async.  Of course, I don't crash a lot, but I suspect most people
don't.

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