Subject: Re: Puzzling questions about FFS
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.AU>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@entropic.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/30/1994 23:30:22
>One thing not doing synchronous inode write buys you is a bit of
>speed. This is why Linux seems to win doing filesystem intensive
>stuff.
It's worth noting that there's an async option to mount (mount -o async) that
will make all I/O on that filesystem done asynchronously. It's not clear to
me at a glace if it actually _does_ anything, but it might be worth using
if you were doing something that required lots of directory updates (for
example, doing a restore on a filesystem).
--Ken