From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 7:26: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swansea.cableinet.net (swansea.cableinet.net [194.117.142.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218DB37B476 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bnazir@localhost) by swansea.cableinet.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g25FOlp25218; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:24:47 GMT (envelope-from bnazir) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:24:47 +0000 From: Burhan Nazir To: Brett Glass Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates on root in 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020305152447.GA25206@swansea.cableinet.net> References: <200203051451.HAA04559@lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203051451.HAA04559@lariat.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Softupdates will not write any data immediatly to the disk. I believe it is about 30 seconds b4 any data actually gets wriiten. This enhances disk write speed for certain types of operations. However, there is a small risk of data loss/coruption if the machine looses power b4 any data was written. For that reason, ppl believe that it is not a good idea to have softupdates on the system critical root partition Brett Glass wrote: >Just noticed that the default, in 4.5-RELEASE, is to install >softupdates on all partitions EXCEPT root. Is this an oversight, >or is there a reason why this is the default setting? > >--Brett Glass > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message