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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:56:00 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, dg@root.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount -o async on a news servre
Message-ID:  <199701132056.NAA28192@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199701130130.MAA13813@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 13, 97 12:00:40 pm

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> > I have had delays on the order of a minute when umounting my JAZ disk.
> 
> Sounds like you have a bug in your FS patches then.  I beat the living
> crap out of mine on a regular basis (eg. 'make build' for NetBSD NFS
> clients, FreeBSD CVS repository, etc.), and 'umount' invariably gives
> a quick squitter and then the drive is ready to eject.

Sorry, but my patches aren't in this particular kernel...

> Huh?  How do "other BSD's" handle reading the media size from a drive
> that handles variable size media?  I think you're dreaming again.

They don't attempt to read it until they verify that media is present.

> > In any case, I have to wait a long time.  NetBSD and OpenBSD running
> > on the same hardware do not have the same delay.
> 
> ... probably because you're not running with your hacked kernel on them.

Actually, the OpenBSD code *does* have my patches appied to it...
OpenBSD uses a different VM.

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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