From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 1 20:27:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44B337B416 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:27:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fB24RUi11903 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:27:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:27:30 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Enabling Softupdates in default install on -CURRENT Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't time to switch sysinstall to start configuring softupdates "by default" for file systems at install-time. We currently allow it to be selected, but don't enable it by default. I would propose it be turned on by default for all non-root file systems, or some other similar rule (file systems <64MB, ..). Given that this is the primary recommendation made for system performance tuning, and not only addresses performance but improved reliability, it seems to me that this would be a sensible change to introduce at some useful breaking point, and 5.0 provides a good opportunity to do that. Any objections? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message