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Date:      Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:05:02 -0400
From:      "Gregory Keefe" <keefeg@keefeg.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Softupdates
Message-ID:  <002301c1e31e$1dbe2850$9865fea9@GPC>

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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?


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