From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 12:16:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 12:16:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C59537B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBBKGZ311214; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:16:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:16:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: danh@gelatinous.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" Message-ID: <20001211121635.F16205@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001211195028.74138.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001211195028.74138.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com>; from danh@gelatinous.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:50:28PM -0000 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * danh@gelatinous.com [001211 11:50] wrote: > Hi, is there anything wrong with enabling softupdates > on my / partition? Yes and no. Yes because the delayed deletion "feature" of softupdates may cause you to run out of space on / when doing installworld unless / is pretty large. I use ~120 MB to get around this, but I may not need that much. No because if your /tmp is in / then tempfile creation and deletion will be signifigantly faster which can really speed up applications especially stupid ones that use lockfiles in /tmp. I recommend using softupdates on / as long as you have enough space, 120-150 megs, with disk speeds these days fsck'ing ~120MB doesn't take that long. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message