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Softupdates give you an "insurance" that, in the event of a crash or a=20=

power outage, your filesystem will be coherent enough to be recoverable=20=

by fsck. This is the same goal as journalisation, just a different=20
method.

However, any data not fully commited to disk is forever lost. I guess=20
this applies to unsaved documents.

Note that the hard disk's write cache should be __disabled__ or there's=20=

no point in using softupdates at all. Up to now, there's no support for=20=

"safe write cache" operation. To my knowledge, it only exists in=20
windows 2000 sp3 and xp. (it has been found ... inoperant in w2k <sp3!).

hope this helps

Raphael

Le mercredi, 16 avr 2003, =E0 22:02 Europe/Zurich, David a =E9crit :

> I have freebsd 5.0 and it uses softupdates which I hear
> it is better or equal to journal filesystem.  Also
> softupdates writes to the disk in the event of a crash
> to make recovering faster.  So, if I were working on a
> unsaved document or project and the system crash or freezes
> where and how do I recover it.
>
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