:Spindle sync is an anachronism these days; asynchronous behaviour :(write-behind in particular) is all the rage. You'd be hard-pressed to :find drives that even support it anymore.
Woa! Say what? I think you are totally incorrect here Mike. Spindle sync is not an anachronism. You can't get good RAID{0,2,3,4,5} performance without it - for reading OR writing. It doesn't matter so much for RAID{1,10}, but it matters a whole lot for something like RAID-5 where the difference between a spindle-synced read or write and a non-spindle-synched read or write can be upwards of 35%. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message