From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 2 11:40:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from beastie.mckusick.com (beastie.mckusick.com [209.31.233.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F27A37B416; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:40:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from beastie.mckusick.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.mckusick.com (8.11.4/8.9.3) with ESMTP id fB2JeVf20287; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com) Message-Id: <200112021940.fB2JeVf20287@beastie.mckusick.com> To: Robert Watson Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates in default install on -CURRENT Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Dec 2001 23:27:30 EST." Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 11:40:31 -0800 From: Kirk McKusick Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe that soft updates has been well enough tested at this point to make it reasonable to turn it on by default. Doing it in 5.0 is a no-brainer; doing it for 4.5 is probably fine as it does not require any code-base changes. Having it off for the root filesystem seems like the right plan. Primarily for the reasons of running out of space. I have some changes in the works that try to address that problem, but none work well enough to be worth checking in yet. I am still hopeful that one of the ideas will pan out. In the meantime, you should be mounting a memory-based filesystem on /tmp. Indeed you should do that in any event - setting up a memory-based /tmp should be part of the default setup script. Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message