=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/Attic/softupdate.html,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -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 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ 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 +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.