Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

[Matthew Dillon]

:mount(8):
:             sync    All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously.
:
:On the gripping hand, you can say, 'this is an ATIME update, there's no
:way its presence or lack thereof can do anything bad to the filesystem,
:so let it be async since it takes extra work to make it sync'.
:
:Does anyone have any feeling either way on this?  I, unfortunately, seem
:to have strong feelings BOTH ways...  sync atime updates will slow it
:down, but on the flip side, if you're mounting sync in the first place
:you don't care much for speed anyway.
:
:Thoughts?
:Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)     |    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

    Well, you don't gain anything by making atime updates sync, and you
    lose a lot, so why do it?  If you are worried about protecting the root
    drive from a crash, mount it read-only (and put /dev on an MFS mount)
    or mount it noatime.
     
                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
                                        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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