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frankfortuna · 09-17-2002, 04:36 PM

To answer your questions, soft updates can be a good way of improving small I/O performance, but there are some risks to be assumed. Mainly, if you have a panic or power loss before the syncer can commit the data to disk, you're hosed.

09-17-2002, 04:36 PM
frankfortuna Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,504	To answer your questions, soft updates can be a good way of improving small I/O performance, but there are some risks to be assumed. Mainly, if you have a panic or power loss before the syncer can commit the data to disk, you're hosed.