From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 19 7:54:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B47C37B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD4943E70 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7JEsqcC014553; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:54:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7JEsqCa014552; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:54:52 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <20020819105452.A14530@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr>; from aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr on Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:28PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Soft updates does not work well with IDE controllers with write caching enabled; you can cause data loss. Most IDE controllers ship with write caching enabled. We won't, by default, ship systems which have an unacceptable risk of data loss. :-) On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Aurélien Nephtali wrote: > Hello, > > What is the reason that the mount point (by default, /) hasn't the flag > for soft-updates by default (during the installation), can I set it > without data lost ? > > -- Aurélien -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message