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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:51:55 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP buildworld times / performance tests 
Message-ID:  <200003310451.VAA31984@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:43:07 PST." <200003310143.RAA71466@apollo.backplane.com> 
References:  <200003310143.RAA71466@apollo.backplane.com>  <20000330180402.E10480@futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003301158360.14426-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> <200003300604.WAA68031@apollo.backplane.com> <20000330174453.D10480@futuresouth.com> <20000330160043.A57508@dragon.nuxi.com> <200003310058.RAA30753@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200003310143.RAA71466@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
:     Async should not be used unless you really like restoring crashed
:     filesystems from tape :-).  Oh, and perhaps when one is doing an 
:     initial OS install from CDRom :-).  Async itself will not cause a crash,
:     but if your machine crashes in the middle of a bunch of async writes 
:     you might end up with an unrecoverable filesystem.

Sure makes those restores from backup tapes run fast, however :-)

Warner


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