On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> >
> > Not really. You could just use async updates instead of softupdates.
> > Or an OS that uses async updates. Write caching metadata is always faster
> > than re-ordering it intelligently.
>
> Softupdates reduces the number of writes needed. It can coalesce writes
> to the same block.
Async updates are always as fast as softupdates, if not faster. You
should read the softupdates docs.
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
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