From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 14: 8:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757BD37B41C for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:07:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F146DBD82 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:07:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05855 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:07:58 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0UM8ok02884; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates ( why not to use on / fs ) References: <3C593C4A@epostleser.online.no> <20020130124756.A15728@modula.no> <20020130095919.B26823@polands.org> <20020130191402.D84744078@i8k.babbleon.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 30 Jan 2002 14:08:50 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020130191402.D84744078@i8k.babbleon.org> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From this and past threads I conclude that using SoftUpdates is a bit less safe than not using it (when using other defaults), which made me wince when I read in the release announcement: ...sysinstall(8) now enables Soft Updates (a strategy for improving both performance and reliability of on-disk data structures) for new filesystems it creates... It's true, I guess, but will mislead many readers who don't know better (but maybe that's a small number by now). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message