Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:54:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld : problem 1 (softupdates) Message-ID: <19990820145441.A62433@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199908201327.JAA01850@misha.cisco.com>; from Mikhail Teterin on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:27:13AM -0400 References: <25577.935154107@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <199908201327.JAA01850@misha.cisco.com>
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> > Or you could turn softupdates off for your root partition. Since you > > say it's small, what would you lose? > > Thanks, but is not this a genuine problem worth addressing? Kirk McKusick knows the problem and is looking for an acceptable solution. Softupdates doesn't buy you anything on reads -- just writes. So unless you have it turned on for / because /tmp is on /, you aren't getting anything out of softupdates than frustration. With today's massively cheap disks, many do not feel it is such a big deal -- ie, have enough diskspace that you don't get that near full. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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