Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Briefly, they are a way of combining writes to disk so that fewer > writes happen for meta data. There's also the "and ordering writes so that the disk is left in a consistent state after each write, preventing filesystem damage in a crash without the slowdown associated with a synchronous filesystem" part, which I think is really most important. --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
