From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 13 13:22:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA06163 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA06158 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA28192; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:56:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701132056.NAA28192@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:56:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dg@root.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701130130.MAA13813@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 13, 97 12:00:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.