Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:30:21 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remount Filesystems Message-ID: <20010525103021.B40969@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <3B0D8A80.596CC3B7@iowna.com>; from wmoran@iowna.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:26:09PM -0400 References: <SAK.2001.05.24.raeessor@support10> <20010525094056.B37339@itouchnz.itouch> <3B0D8A80.596CC3B7@iowna.com>
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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:26:09PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
[...]
> I don't understand why you'd bother with softupdates on / anyway? Just
> from my perspective, I try to keep the / fs as reliable as possible and,
> although softupdates is very reliable, it does have a slightly higher
> incidence of crash corruption than standard sync.
Really? My understanding of softupdates was that it keeps that metadata
in a more stable state, and thus makes your filesystem *less* prone to
fsck problems.
Otherwise, why would anyone want to enable softupdates on a production
system?
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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