=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/Attic/softupdate.html,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -c -r1.2 -r1.3 *** www/Attic/softupdate.html 1998/06/19 15:07:12 1.2 --- www/Attic/softupdate.html 1998/11/17 01:10:30 1.3 *************** *** 17,23 **** Over the last two years Kirk McKusick has been working on something called "soft updates". This is based on an idea proposed by Greg Ganger and Yale Patt that imposing a partial ordering on the buffer ! cache operations would permit the requirement for syncronous writing of directory entries to be removed from the FFS code. Thus, a large performance increase of disk writing performance.

--- 17,23 ---- Over the last two years Kirk McKusick has been working on something called "soft updates". This is based on an idea proposed by Greg Ganger and Yale Patt that imposing a partial ordering on the buffer ! cache operations would permit the requirement for synchronous writing of directory entries to be removed from the FFS code. Thus, a large performance increase of disk writing performance.