From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 4 18:37:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2DD37B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f451gsl05388; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105050142.f451gsl05388@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tadayuki OKADA Cc: stable Subject: Re: soft update should be default In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 May 2001 20:51:42 EDT." <20010504205142.1a7013e6.tadayuki@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 18:42:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > Why 'soft update' is not default? > It adds performance and stability, doesn't it? It requires disabling of write caching, which typically reduces performance (significantly). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message