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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:51:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Stanaford <rsstan@yahoo.com>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Paul Coyne <pac@geodesic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cached versus non cached disk I/O
Message-ID:  <20000712025107.15159.qmail@web3106.mail.yahoo.com>

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--- Tom <tom@uniserve.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Paul Coyne wrote:

>   The filesystem can be put into async (or softupdates) mode so that
> local metadata update functions return before the metadata is actualy
> written to disk.


Doesn't 'asyncing' the filesystem make it more fragile?  Or did I read the
Handbook/Making the World section wrong?

-Richard


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