Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:03:09 -0400 From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <a05200603b986b8c719fa@[129.85.219.160]> In-Reply-To: <20020819105452.A14530@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> <20020819105452.A14530@blackhelicopters.org>
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At 10:54 AM -0400 2002/08/19, Michael Lucas wrote: >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. :-) Okay, then I'll ask the next question. Why is this acceptable on /usr, /var, or other mount points? My 'data' is likely to be everywhere *but* /. If we should be disabling write caching on IDE installations, can you point me to instructions for the procedure? I'd like to call it out more in the docs. Thanks, Chris Pepper >On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Aur=E9lien 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 ? -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>; Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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