From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 19 8:14:51 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 D3FAF37B40A for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:14:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55DE43E75 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 1D2B8136C7; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:14:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:14:37 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Aur?lien Nephtali Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Aur?lien Nephtali wrote: > Hello, >=20 > 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 ? >=20 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. --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iD8DBQE9YQtdObaG4P6BelARAvTWAJ9hZfQCHLnWmD9AkXevxjZdZNXidQCfVCiT eGPWg2FOlHUbQVpaBPaOUKs= =EFDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message