On Jun 11, Johan Danielsson wrote
> Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se> writes:
> 
> Wasn't there some patches for FreeBSD to do semi-asynchronous metadata
> operations? IIRC it was about as fast as ext2.
> 

Yes, and it is in FreeBSD 2.2. You still have to enable it with the -o async
option.

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