From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 12:29:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web3106.mail.yahoo.com (web3106.mail.yahoo.com [204.71.202.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5111B37BE38 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsstan@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000721201018.4157.qmail@web3106.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [150.159.224.8] by web3106.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:10:18 PDT Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:10:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Stanaford Subject: Re: Can we put softupdates in GENERIC install kernel? To: John LoVerso , Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- John LoVerso wrote: > > I think it might make sense to mount the file systems async during > > installs. If it crashes, well, you're just gonna have to re-run the > > install anyhow. > > This is not true if you are using the install to do an upgrade of an existing > system. In that case, you just don't want async on any of the partitions. > > John How 'bout /usr/obj, if you've set aside a slice for that? Do you gain more from softupdates? Can you do both? So what if the box pukes and lose the /usr/obj filesystem? You just rebuild. 8-) -Richard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message