Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:32:36 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> To: "=?iso-8859-1?B?Sm9z6SBNqiBBbGNhaWRl?=" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: "FreeBSD-Current" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <003a01be3b1c$250f5f00$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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There is a nice readme file in the contrib directory mentioned in LINT. Follow the directions in that instead. It states to link the files instead of copy them. That makes more sense to me because when a CVSUP takes place, your source is automatically updated (a copy would still be old). Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: José Mª Alcaide <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 4:45 AM Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES >Matthew Dillon wrote: >> >> Softupdates basically gives you the advantage of an async mount without >> any of the risks. It's actually better then that - it can unwind commits >> to disk before they occur ( e.g. if you create a temporary file and then >> delete it very soon after ). Softupdates basically guarentees disk >> consistancy in the face of a crash. >> >> It's pretty well debugged as it stands -- I'd call it production. I don't >> think the problem the person who was posting and calling a softupdates >> is actually a softupdates problem. I've been using it solidly for a while >> and BEST has been using it on their nntp box ( a very heavily loaded box ) >> for a few months. >> > >The main problem I see with softupdates is the lack of information. >I read the tunefs(8) manpage and I found the "-n" option. However, >there is no mention to the need of the SOFTUPDATES kernel option >(I bumped into it while reading LINT). > >I think that a little tutorial about what softupdates is, and how >to turn it on, should be very useful for many users (like me :-) ). > >-- JMA >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es >Universidad del País Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose >Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | >Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 >48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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