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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:01:12 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        Aur?lien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ?
Message-ID:  <20020819210012.J1495-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org>

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Chris Faulhaber wrote:

CF> > What is the reason that the mount point (by default, /) hasn't the flag
CF> > for soft-updates by default (during the installation), can I set it
CF> > without data lost ?
CF> >
CF>
CF> This is a more conservative approach (similiar to not using async
CF> mounts by default unlike other OS's) due to the importance of the
CF> data on the root partition.  And, since there are normally very
CF> few writes to the root partition, unlike /var and others, soft-
CF> updates would not provide much of a performance boost anyways.

Well, what about atime updates? Or, did I miss something?

Then, next thought: why don't we mount / noatime?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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