From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 6 14:56:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF58152B5 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA23944; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:56:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:56:24 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Kevin Day Cc: Peter Jeremy , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick Message-ID: <19991006165624.Q20768@futuresouth.com> References: <19991006154419.O20768@futuresouth.com> <199910062118.QAA90799@celery.dragondata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199910062118.QAA90799@celery.dragondata.com> X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:18:15PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Kevin Day remarked > > > > /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100) > > My understanding was that that was just a indication of writes that were > able to be done asynchronously without any risk, so they were done async. > > (sync isn't purely sync, only synchronous when it's required for integrity) I was given to understand that while the default mountop follows these conventions, explicit 'sync' meant SYNC meant SYNC meant SYNC. This is my root filesystem. It gets written to when I edit a file under /etc or do an installworld. I don't *CARE* how slow it is, I want to know that it's solid, consistent, and complete. Just 'consistent' isn't enough. No write is able to be done async without risk when I'm explicitly saying 'write everything synchronously'. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message