Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:45:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall option for softupdates Message-ID: <200103121945.f2CJjcu64560@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <54818.984425639@critter>
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>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:33:59 +0100
>From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
>In message <20010312112823.D21123@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>>On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:32:23PM -0800, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>>> Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> writes:
>>> > The version of the patch for -current uses the softdep mount option only.
>>> > If you remove the mount option, you dont get softupdates.
>>> In this case, it might be better to just turn it on by default and let
>>Problem is many still feel it should not be used on / .
>Why not ?
Probably because of the behavior when a softupdates-enabled filesystem is
active & near full. This can be exacerbated on / if /tmp isn't a separate
filesystem.
Since I mount /tmp as a separate filesystem, and since I boot the laptop
in any of 3 different environments (with the "other environments"
represented as other filesystems), I've enabled softupdates on all of
the disk-based filesystems on the box. No problems so far (a few hours
shy of 1 week). Biggest workload is the make {build,install}{world,kernel}
stuff.
Cheers,
david
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