From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 11:45:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A343C37B71A for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2CJjcu64560 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:45:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:45:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200103121945.f2CJjcu64560@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall option for softupdates In-Reply-To: <54818.984425639@critter> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:33:59 +0100 >From: Poul-Henning Kamp >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 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 -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message