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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NOT Re: TCP latency Date: 20 Jul 1996 14:04:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4sqp0o$4ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <87k9w6g6u4.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <31E9D0CC.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <87ybklz05q.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <31EAD699.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <87ohle1v5h.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <4slan6$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <nF05CBB68@longacre.demon.co.uk> <4sp634$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DutHH3.IwE@kithrup.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) wrote: > J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > > mount -o async -u /usr > > > >...temporarily switches your /usr file system to async. -o noasync > >reverts to sync. > > To clarify, you need the "-u" flag -- it means "update". So you would use: > > mount -u -o async /usr Except that you've got the -o async after the -u, it's exactly what i wrote. :-) > >/dev/sd1h /tmp ufs rw,async 0 1 > > Er... why not just use a swap filesystem (mfs)? Because i'm conservative and like to see my /tmp files preserved across potential system crashes when playing with something. I'm working allot inside /tmp, e.g. i'm normally doing all my CVS work there (cvs checkout, edit, cvs diff, cvs delete, commit diff on freefall). I've got it outo-purging after three days not accessing a file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)