Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:33:47 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates... Message-ID: <38ACAF8B.65E314E9@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002171205530.1712-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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Tom wrote: > > Not really. You could just use async updates instead of softupdates. > Or an OS that uses async updates. Write caching metadata is always faster > than re-ordering it intelligently. Softupdates reduces the number of writes needed. It can coalesce writes to the same block. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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