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From: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Date: 17 Oct 1996 23:47:26 GMT
Organization: CDS Internet
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References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <53ucuj$8qh@twwells.com> <540dos$asu@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu> <54398m$img@twwells.com>
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In article <54398m$img@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote:
>In article <540dos$asu@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu>,
>mount -u -o async
>
>I think will do it; it's in the man page anyway. But I don't know
>if it makes much difference, though I do run that way. Most of the
>time is spent in *reading* the directory -- one has to do that in
>order to determine if the file already exists. Async writes don't
>help there.



Should help with updating the metadata for the last access time if under heavy 
read load.