From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 12 21:37:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (news.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD139150E9 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40354>; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:21:21 +1000 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:34:38 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: How stable is soft updates? To: brian@Awfulhak.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <99Apr13.142121est.40354@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Somers wrote: >Are there any plans (Kirk/Julian/Louqi?) to fix this so that >softupdates can do just-in-time syncing ? This has been raised with Kirk by several different people (including myself). His short response is "fixing it is hard" and he recommends not using softupdates on filesystems that don't have about a minutes worth of free space (ie root). (In any case, softupdates enhance _write_ performance only. The root partition should be very close to read-only, so there's no gain. If you want faster upgrades, you can mount root async whilst you're doing the update). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message