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From: nuzrin yaapar <nuzrin@yahoo.com>
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To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: soft updates
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:55:59 +0800
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it's very stable..i've been using it for as long as i can remember and the 
performance gain is significant

On Monday 17 September 2001 8:53 am, Nathan Mace wrote:
> i'm looking at the freebsd handbook right now, trying to decide if i should
> use soft-updates on my box.  i can't afford to lose any data, that is
> written in stone.
>
> it says: "First, Soft Updates guarantees filesystem consistency in the case
> of a crash..."  is this true?  it also lists two "problems" that might
> occur using it.  one would be that it 'runs' out of space if my drive is
> close to being full.  thats not an issue, niether is the 2nd problem
>
> basically what i'm asking is is it stable?  and how much of a performance
> gain am i gonna see?  thanks
>
> nathan
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