On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:18:15PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Kevin Day remarked
> >
> > /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100)
>
> My understanding was that that was just a indication of writes that were
> able to be done asynchronously without any risk, so they were done async.
>
> (sync isn't purely sync, only synchronous when it's required for integrity)
I was given to understand that while the default mountop follows these
conventions, explicit 'sync' meant SYNC meant SYNC meant SYNC.
This is my root filesystem. It gets written to when I edit a file under
/etc or do an installworld. I don't *CARE* how slow it is, I want to
know that it's solid, consistent, and complete. Just 'consistent' isn't
enough. No write is able to be done async without risk when I'm
explicitly saying 'write everything synchronously'.
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