On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that David Scheidt remarked
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> >
> > Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition?
>
> Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done
> asynchronously.
Even with SYNC mounts?
(Not 'default', explicit 'sync'. It takes quite noticeable amounts of
time to, for instance, install kernels.)
>From fstab:
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/da0s1a / ufs rw,sync 1 1
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