From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 21 10:32:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D64E37B414 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15kU9t-000FQb-00; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:32:13 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f8LHWCO81768; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:32:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:32:12 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Matt Dillon Cc: Mike Meyer , "Daniel O'Connor" , Kevin Oberman , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question Message-ID: <20010921183212.A81649@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200109210329.f8L3TGR30860@ptavv.es.net> <20010920211704.C7820@gateway.bogus> <15274.48864.994229.51687@guru.mired.org> <200109210549.f8L5n6r67664@earth.backplane.com> <20010921122805.A78591@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200109211726.f8LHQ3h70907@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200109211726.f8LHQ3h70907@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:26:03AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:26:03AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: | | :So, to boil everything down, I have 1 question: | : | :On a workstation LAPTOP (IDE, low load, etc), does it make more sense to use | :softupdates, write caching, or both? | : | :jm | | Write caching is turned on by default in 4.4, so all you need to mess | with is softupdates. In a laptop environment, softupdates will not But you *could* choose one or the other, but not both, correct? jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message