From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 19 10: 1:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D70437B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E197D43E88 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7JH1CTJ020936; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:01:12 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:01:12 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Chris Faulhaber Cc: Aur?lien Nephtali , Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? In-Reply-To: <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org> Message-ID: <20020819210012.J1495-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message