From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 20 14:56:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED3814E84 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA62548; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19990820145441.A62433@nuxi.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:54:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: mi@aldan.algebra.com, Sheldon Hearn Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld : problem 1 (softupdates) Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <25577.935154107@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <199908201327.JAA01850@misha.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199908201327.JAA01850@misha.cisco.com>; from Mikhail Teterin on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:27:13AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Or you could turn softupdates off for your root partition. Since you > > say it's small, what would you lose? > > Thanks, but is not this a genuine problem worth addressing? Kirk McKusick knows the problem and is looking for an acceptable solution. Softupdates doesn't buy you anything on reads -- just writes. So unless you have it turned on for / because /tmp is on /, you aren't getting anything out of softupdates than frustration. With today's massively cheap disks, many do not feel it is such a big deal -- ie, have enough diskspace that you don't get that near full. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message