From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 5 11:17:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EAF1540E for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:17:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21239; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:17:36 -0800 (PST) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tmpfs .. ? In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 04 Dec 1999 20:47:11 -0800. <199912050447.UAA58828@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 11:17:36 -0800 Message-ID: <21237.944421456@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199912050447.UAA58828@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Mail queue files are persistant enough (upwards of 5 days if a destination > is down) that you run a real risk of losing something important if > you crash and wipe. I would not use MFS at all and I would only use VN > with persistant store, but the performance is going to be similar to > using a normal filesystem so it may not be worth doing. Yea, someone else I was talking with about this said the same thing. I just can't get over the nagging feeling that (for the mail spool directory) there ought to be something that is ultra-super-deluxe fast that I should be using. :-) > Normal > filesystems with softupdates turned on make pretty good mail spools though OK, I've seen several mentions now of `softupdates', and I think that I have a general (vague?) notion of what `softupdates' is all about, but allow me to disaply my ignorance one more time and ask which man page (or document) I should be looking at to learn all of the specifics regarding `softupdates'. (I looked at `man tunefs' and I don't see nuttin' there, so where exactly is/are `softupdates' documented?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message