Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:39:37 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates in default install on -CURRENT Message-ID: <20011201223937.C92148@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011201232300.4004I-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:27:30PM -0500 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011201232300.4004I-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [011201 22:27] wrote:
>
> 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?
No objections, please do this! Btw, it's a shame that people are
so reluctant to do it on '/' i know there's issues about it filling
up, but I think rather than saying no softdep on '/', it would
make sense to say no softdep on '/' if it's smaller than 120 megs,
the main reason being /tmp.
Perhaps a dialog at install time that clearly states:
"Would you like to enable 'soft-updates' on your root partition?
This can dramatically speed up operations involving temporary
files, but you may experience 'out of space' errors if you are
not careful.
[YES] [NO]
"
The default being to disable them.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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