From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 12:10:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B8237BB6B for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-196-115.netcologne.de [194.8.196.115]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04378; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e69J7V903125; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:07:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:07:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Softupdates question In-Reply-To: <20000709005612.A89313@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: > I'm upgrading to 4.0 and the softupdates option looks particularly > attractive. I'd like to use it because of power outages. > > My question is: Which filesystem(s) should softupdate be applied > to? All of them? Or, are some better than others? What about the > root filesystem? This is really just a question of taste. I think softupdates are stable enough to use for production filesystems. I have my / filesystem mounted 'sync' (paranoid, not much IO anyway) and the rest with softupdates. I have been very happy with it. > If so, is it possible to umount all filesystems and run the tunefs > program? Yep. Best done in single-user. :) In order to tunefs the root filesystem, it should be read-only mounted. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message