From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 17:46:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28AE737B40C for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.232) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2001 00:46:16 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:53:23 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd-questions Subject: soft updates Message-Id: <20010916205323.7039d728.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 i'm looking at the freebsd handbook right now, trying to decide if i should use soft-updates on my box. i can't afford to lose any data, that is written in stone. it says: "First, Soft Updates guarantees filesystem consistency in the case of a crash..." is this true? it also lists two "problems" that might occur using it. one would be that it 'runs' out of space if my drive is close to being full. thats not an issue, niether is the 2nd problem basically what i'm asking is is it stable? and how much of a performance gain am i gonna see? thanks nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message