RE: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with asyncoption

2005-06-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Matthias Buelow > Lefteris Tsintjelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am not sure if I do something wrong here or it is suppose >> to work that way but the async option doesn't seem to work >> for partitions that have soft-updates turned on. Can someone >> please clarify the difference an

Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with asyncoption

2005-06-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
"Darren Pilgrim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >No. With softupdates, file writes are asynchronous, but writes to >filesystem structures (metadata) are synchronous to prevent filesystem >corruption if the machine crashes. The async mount option writes both That's wrong. mkb.