Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 21:27:34 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? Message-ID: <12089.833405254@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 May 1996 13:32:29 MST." <199605292032.NAA02323@Root.COM>
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> They already are updated in-core and only written out during sync. The > problem is that on busy machines, *thousands* of inodes have to be written > out during the sync, and this can take 10+ seconds. With sync occuring every > 30 seconds, this means the machine spends 33% of it's disk I/O time *just* > writing out inodes. The access time is almost completely useless on a busy > fileserver, so this is just a waste. Veritas offers this as a mount-time option as far as I recall. I belive we should have it, laptops will love it too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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