From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 14:42:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138A937B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC83C43F9B for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:42:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0VMf995055572; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:41:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h0VMf8J1055569; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:41:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:41:08 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Mike Dean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoftUpdate woes In-Reply-To: <20030131210731.GA347@evertek.net> Message-ID: <20030131174017.J54363-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_AUTH_WARNING,AWL version=2.31 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 > Incidentally, before my switch to FreeBSD, I was running Linux (2.4 > kernel) with an ext3 journaling filesystem, and anytime I had to do a > hard reset, I never lost a byte of data AFAIK. > > What can I do? Would turning off softupdates (if I can figure out how - > I tried dropping into single-user mode and doing a tunefs -n disable, > but it seems like it had no effect, even after a reboot) help? Or is > there something else I can do to my filesystem to have some more > protection? For the time being I'm running 4-STABLE (if there's > something in 5 that helps with this, go ahead and let me know - I'm > planning to upgrade over spring break in March). FreeBSD doesn't try to make sure that new data doesn't get lost with softupdates, it just makes sure that the filesystem is in an error free state when you reboot, and makes meta-data updates faster. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message