Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 02:11:03 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rgen_Sigvardsson?=" <jorgen.sigvardsson@kau.se>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Survey on tuning facts. Message-ID: <003601c0d47a$24b7d560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <0105041018560S.15338@js-pc>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jörgen >Sigvardsson > >I found that option as well. If I would not have found it when I >did, I would >have uninstalled FreeBSD 2 hours later. Without soft updates, it's >shit slow. >SCSI/IDE/whatever. > >Why is it not on by default? Because it's new. >Maybe I'm not getting the point The point of BSD has always been rock-solid reliability. If you want feature-o-the-day then you use Linux. Soft Updates is only a year or so old, it's not got the mileage on it yet to be switched on by default. The fact that nobody has reported problems yet with it is a good sign but its a pretty fundamental feature to introduce, so the mantra is to introduce these new features very gradually. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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