On Wednesday 14 January 2004 19:03, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:02:38PM +0100, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:00:12PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > What does ``written away'' mean?  This should be explained.
> > >
> > > Maybe some links to websites explaining file systems and FFS in
> > > particular?
> >
> > Good points. I have changed it to ``written to disk'' and added
> > some references.
> >
> > How does it look now?
>
> I think I forgot something ;).

Hmm... "by default filesystems are mounted synchronously"... only the meta
data is written synchronously, afaict.  Just try "-o sync" and see the really
bad performance ;)

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