From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 6:14:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D70B37B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 06:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4UDB1k01167; Wed, 30 May 2001 09:11:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B14F1D1.C7CA5406@iowna.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:12:49 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dannyman Cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remount Filesystems References: <20010525094056.B37339@itouchnz.itouch> <3B0D8A80.596CC3B7@iowna.com> <20010525103021.B40969@itouchnz.itouch> <20010530002714.L14366@dell.dannyland.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 dannyman wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:30:21AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:26:09PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > [...] > > > I don't understand why you'd bother with softupdates on / anyway? Just > > > from my perspective, I try to keep the / fs as reliable as possible and, > > > although softupdates is very reliable, it does have a slightly higher > > > incidence of crash corruption than standard sync. > > > > Really? My understanding of softupdates was that it keeps that metadata > > in a more stable state, and thus makes your filesystem *less* prone to > > fsck problems. > > Yes, it keeps meta-data in a more stable state by cacheing it > intelligently in memory before writing it. Thus, the filesystem is less > prone to fsck problems, but you do risk losing data if the metadata is > not written to disk before a crash. What I just became curious about is: would it be possible to mount a filesystem both async and softupdates, and would there be any advantage? -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message