Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:04:57 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: soft updates Message-ID: <01091621045700.00603@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20010916205323.7039d728.nmace85@yahoo.com> References: <20010916205323.7039d728.nmace85@yahoo.com>
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On Sunday 16 September 2001 20:53, Nathan Mace wrote: > i'm looking at the freebsd handbook right now, trying to decide if i should > use soft-updates on my box. i can't afford to lose any data, that is > written in stone. > > it says: "First, Soft Updates guarantees filesystem consistency in the case > of a crash..." is this true? it also lists two "problems" that might > occur using it. one would be that it 'runs' out of space if my drive is > close to being full. thats not an issue, niether is the 2nd problem > > basically what i'm asking is is it stable? and how much of a performance > gain am i gonna see? thanks "Yes," and "a lot", respectively, but you *must* turn off write-cache on your disk if you are going to use soft updates. Actually, if you care about your data, you should do this anyway. Actually, that should be the shipped default, regardless of whether it makes FreeBSD "look worse" on benchmark tests conducted by the ignorant. But that's just my opinion. > > nathan > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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