From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 11:13:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A04437B407 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 82116 invoked by uid 100); 10 May 2002 18:13:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15580.3510.82702.122790@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:13:10 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My horror story In-Reply-To: <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr> References: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin> <20020510140222.M57329@lpt.ens.fr> <15580.1017.276905.556906@guru.mired.org> <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.54 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <20020510194022.D77057@lpt.ens.fr>, Rahul Siddharthan typed: > Mike Meyer said on May 10, 2002 at 12:31:37: > > Two, softupdates is not orthogonal to the sync/noasync/async > > mount flag. It turns those off when you do the mount, > If so, it's not documented in the tunefs(8), newfs(8) or mount(8) > manpages. True, and that needs to be fixed. Actually, in double-checking the source, I noticed I was only half right. Sync and async aren't opposites, but separate bits. Async is ignored when mounting a file system with softupdates set, but sync isn't. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message