Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:14:37 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Aur?lien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Aur?lien 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 ? > This is a more conservative approach (similiar to not using async mounts by default unlike other OS's) due to the importance of the data on the root partition. And, since there are normally very few writes to the root partition, unlike /var and others, soft- updates would not provide much of a performance boost anyways. -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iD8DBQE9YQtdObaG4P6BelARAvTWAJ9hZfQCHLnWmD9AkXevxjZdZNXidQCfVCiT eGPWg2FOlHUbQVpaBPaOUKs= =EFDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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