Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:16:42 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@mi.uni-koeln.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is soft updates? Message-ID: <19990412111642.A304@dialup124.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990408095206.17672R-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:54:23AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904072041410.704-100000@heaven.gigo.com> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990408095206.17672R-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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On 1999-04-08 09:54 -0400, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 jfesler@gigo.com wrote: > > 3: How do we tunefs "/" ? > > Even with the above confidence, I would never tune my root partition to > have softupdates. > > That 'no-no' buzzer goes on in the back of my head whenever I think about > doing that. Just a warning to people who still think they might want to mount "/" with soft updates enabled: Be sure to have PLENTY of free space in your root partition, if you are ever going to "make world". You'll need at least 16MB free in order to install the binaries in /bin and /sbin (and the system will be unhappy without them ;-) Soft updates causes the files that are replaced to keep their disk blocks, until all the meta information on disk points to the new versions, and the install command seems to further double this by creating temporary files ... Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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