Metawrites Re: Amazingly slow disk writes

[Eric Mertens <emmf26_(_at_)_umr_(_dot_)_edu>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 04:40:21PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> Metadata updates in ffs are doing syncronously (so you always have
> valid data strucures on the disk).  If you mount the filesystem
> with the "softdep" mount option you should find that untarring
> things like this is much faster.
> 
>  - todd

I guess i forgot to include this output
`mount`
/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local, softdep)
/dev/wd0f on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, softdep)
/dev/wd0d on /usr type ffs (local, nodev, softdep)
/dev/wd0e on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, softdep)
/dev/wd0g on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, softdep)
/dev/wd1a on /home/pikapps/disk2 type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, softdep)
/dev/wd2a on /home/pikapps/disk3 type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, softdep)
mfs:24743 on /mnt type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=100000 512-blocks)