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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:26:35 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Mars Attack <marsattack@cannoncreek.com>
Cc:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Helge Oldach <Helge.Oldach@de.origin-it.com>, oberman@es.net, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA
Message-ID:  <20010313032635.Q29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <01f001c0abaa$133e1680$4500a8c0@nomad>; from marsattack@cannoncreek.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:40:46PM %2B0800
References:  <200103131007.f2DA73h54023@mobile.wemm.org> <01f001c0abaa$133e1680$4500a8c0@nomad>

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* Mars Attack <marsattack@cannoncreek.com> [010313 02:18] wrote:
> Geez, this thread is getting longer and all the more confusing, can some
> guru possibly attempt to outline the good and bad points of Softupdates or
> WC ?

1) softupdates good
2) WC bad (even when not using softupdates)

Basically, softupdates doesn't really matter, as long as you have
write caching turned on, you're defeating the safeness of FFS
(noasync) and FFS (softdep) by allowing the disk to reorder what
should be ordered writes.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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