From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 3:48:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bavian.no (bavian.no [193.71.199.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8226437B402 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16969 invoked by uid 1003); 30 Jan 2002 11:47:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:47:56 +0100 From: Espen Tagestad To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates Message-ID: <20020130124756.A15728@modula.no> References: <3C593C4A@epostleser.online.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C593C4A@epostleser.online.no>; from dtunez@online.no on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:34:11PM +0100 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 On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:34:11PM +0100, Christer Gundersen wrote: > As i read the RELEASE NOTES, i see that SOFTUPDATES will be activated by > default under install. but it also says that it will not enable SOFTUPDATES on > the root ( / ) fs . why? is that bad? Because with SoftUpdates read/write operations often delay, sometimes up to 30 seconds before it's done. Then, if a machine crash occurs it may lead to a larger loss of data. That can cause unrecoverable damage to your system. regards, Espen Tagestad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message