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Date:      Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:58:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        fn@Radio-do.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SOFTUPDATES
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901161457120.76427-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <199901111356.AAA06651@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >Does softupdates give any gain over async?
> >I have /usr/src and /usr/obj both mounted async, noatime, and it does
> >seem to be rather nicely fast over default mountops.
> 
> Async isn't fully async in FreeBSD (some directory operations are still
> sync), so softupdates is much faster in some cases.  Fully async async
> seems to be a little faster than softupdates.

That's very arbitrary, softupdates can collaps and queue operations and be
much faster, it just depends on your operations.

-Alfred

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