From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 19 8:19: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB0737B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.wanadoo.fr (ca-sqy-4-2.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.8.57.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A9443E4A for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dak@wanadoo.fr) Received: from nebula.wanadoo.fr (dak@localhost.wanadoo.fr [127.0.0.1]) by nebula.wanadoo.fr (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7JFFV0O006981; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:15:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dak@nebula.wanadoo.fr) Received: (from dak@localhost) by nebula.wanadoo.fr (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7JFFUPu006980; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:15:29 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Nephtali To: Chris Faulhaber Cc: Aur?lien Nephtali , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <20020819151529.GA6952@nebula.wanadoo.fr> References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UugvWAfsgieZRqgk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > This is a more conservative approach (similiar to not using async > mounts by default unlike other OS's) due to the importance of the > data on the root partition. And, since there are normally very > few writes to the root partition, unlike /var and others, soft- > updates would not provide much of a performance boost anyways. >=20 My disk is an ATA66 and 'make install' during kernel compilation is very slow and the disk seems to suffer :p -- Aur=E9lien --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9YQuRDNsbHbt8ok8RAjtlAJ4oejwjAJhnoL+3fb1/mCOpI+/f6wCfUH/Q aZ2YmdlFOAJD2a3q0Jw1Cug= =C6o8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message