> > Yeah - looks good! (is the default open_datasync still?). Might be worth > > trying out the fdatasync method too (ISTR this being quite good... again > > on Solaris 8, so things might have changed)! > > I was just talking to a member of the Solaris-UFS team who recommended that we > test fdatasync. Ok, so I did a few runs for each of the sync methods, keeping all the rest constant and got this: open_datasync 0.7 fdatasync 4.6 fsync 4.5 fsync_writethrough not supported open_sync 0.6 in arbitrary units - higher is faster. Quite impressive! Bye, Chris.