From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 4 2:11: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D993937B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 02:11:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f449B3k03186; Fri, 4 May 2001 02:11:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rgen_Sigvardsson?=" , Subject: RE: Survey on tuning facts. Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 02:11:03 -0700 Message-ID: <003601c0d47a$24b7d560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <0105041018560S.15338@js-pc> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >-----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