From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 12: 6:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A3B437B41A for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21419 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2002 19:06:00 -0000 Received: from rrcs-nys-24-97-1-162.biz.rr.com (HELO GPC) (24.97.1.162) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 13 Apr 2002 19:06:00 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 24.97.1.162 Message-ID: <002301c1e31e$1dbe2850$9865fea9@GPC> From: "Gregory Keefe" To: Subject: Softupdates Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:05:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0020_01C1E2FC.966C7210" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C1E2FC.966C7210 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD Claim: http://www.freebsd.org/features.html Soft Updates allows improved file system performance without sacrificing safety and reliability A Unix Expert's Claim: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html ``Do not use async or softupdates filesystems. If you do, and if your = system crashes at the wrong moment, you will lose [data].'' http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html ``Beware that NFS, async filesystems, and softupdates filesystems may discard files that were not safely written to disk before an outage.'' Which should I believe? ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C1E2FC.966C7210 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
FreeBSD Claim:
http://www.freebsd.org/feat= ures.html
Soft=20 Updates allows improved file system performance without = sacrificing
safety=20 and reliability

A Unix Expert's Claim:
http://cr.yp.to/qmail= /faq/reliability.html
``Do=20 not use async or softupdates filesystems. If you do, and if your=20 system
crashes at the wrong moment, you will lose [data].''

http://cr.yp.to/daemon= tools/multilog.html
``Beware=20 that NFS, async filesystems, and softupdates filesystems may
discard = files=20 that were not safely written to disk before an outage.''

Which = should I=20 believe?
------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C1E2FC.966C7210-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message