From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 13:29:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.roc.frontiernet.net (alteon01g.roc.frontiernet.net [66.133.130.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDCA437B41A for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8370 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 21:29:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blacklamb.mykitchentable.net) ([207.173.227.80]) (envelope-sender ) by relay02.roc.frontiernet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 31 Jan 2002 21:29:42 -0000 Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.196]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E59FEE61D; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:58:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <004e01c1aa80$f042f3e0$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "BSD Freak" Cc: References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 soft updates Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:58:50 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "BSD Freak" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:13 AM Subject: FreeBSD 4.5 soft updates > I notice the FreeBSD 4.5 release notes say that sysinstall will now > enable soft updates on all files systems except the root. > > Why is that so? Is it a bad idea to have a root file system with soft > updates? Is it just for compatibility reasons? Please see the other thread titled "Softupdates" on this subject. They've been discussing this in depth over the past few days. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message