From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 11:41:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D907A37B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14cYBd-0000uY-00; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:40:57 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id VAA26564; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:40:55 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 26520; Mon Mar 12 21:40:12 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14cYAu-00013s-00; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:40:12 +0200 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@freebsd.org, Dima Dorfman Subject: Re: sysinstall option for softupdates In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:33:59 +0100." <54818.984425639@critter> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:40:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4083.984426012@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:33:59 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >Problem is many still feel it should not be used on / . > > Why not ? Because a small root partition fills up artificially during "make installworld" and/or "make installkernel". Everybody understands _why_ it happens, but that doesn't make enyone any more comfortable about using softupdates on their root partition. I don't think it has anything to do with reliability. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message