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diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8 index 7bac46265c3..8f02551ac08 100644 --- a/sbin/mount/mount.8 +++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.28 2001/04/04 20:23:39 gluk Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.29 2001/04/06 23:56:28 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.11 1995/07/12 06:23:21 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993 @@ -147,13 +147,17 @@ The most common use of this flag is to speed up .Xr restore 8 where it can give a factor of two speed increase. .It softdep -(FFS only) Mount the filesystem using soft-dependencies. This means -that metadata will not be written immediately, but is written in an -ordered fashion to keep the on-disk state of the filesystem consistent. +(FFS only.) +Mount the filesystem using soft dependencies. +Instead of metadata being written immediately, it is written in an ordered +fasion to keep the on-disk state of the filesystem consistent. This results in significant speedups for file create/delete operations. -This option will be ignored when using the -u flag and a filesystem -is already mounted read/write. This option should be used with care. -It requires the FFS_SOFTUPDATES option to be enabled in the running kernel. +This option will be ignored when using the +.Fl u +flag and a filesystem is already mounted read/write. +It requires +.Cm option FFS_SOFTUPDATES +to be enabled in the running kernel. .It force The same as .Fl f ; |