From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 10 22:31:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A2E14F5F for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:31:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from jazz.monsterbymistake.com (jazz.monsterbymistake.com[205.207.163.189]) by mail.monsterbymistake.com (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3; 1998-Sep-25) (1582 bytes) via sendmail with /P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp id (sender ident using rfc1413) for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:22:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 02:41:56 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: softupdates... the sequel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: |Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 03:48:48 +0000 (GMT) |From: Jonathon McKitrick |To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG |Subject: softupdates... the sequel | |So, for an average joe running FreeBSD on a laptop with an UltraIDA drive |(i guess that matters now ;-) does it make any sense to install |softupdates? Or is it negligible? Or am i sacrificing reliability? | |Just so i don't look foolish, here is m guess: |Yes, i will gain some performance |No, i will not lose reliability | |Correct me if i'm wrong. ;-) | |-jm from sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates : IMPORTANT NOTE: The Soft Updates code is currently in ALPHA test. Use at your own risk! I would like to know if I should run this code on a production machine. I've been told that this message is probably just out of date but ... just curious. thanks, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message