From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 6:35:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D988D37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 06:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16icW0-0003of-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:35:36 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 23EF013040 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:35:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 3A6AF22595; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:35:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:35:32 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates on root in 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020306143532.GC4280@raggedclown.net> References: <47615415@toto.iv> <15493.57118.414479.492155@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15493.57118.414479.492155@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:19:26AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > I personally make the root partitoin larger, enable soft updates, and > use SCSI disks with proper tagged queuing support so the write cache > isn't a problem. Can you clarify this a bit. With a SCSI disk, tagged queuing etc, soft-updates are not helpful ? yes or no ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message