From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 13:26:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED70537B400 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 13:26:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaryg.shacknet.nu ([64.231.133.91]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020511202614.KMMB22898.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; Sat, 11 May 2002 16:26:14 -0400 Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=scaryg.shacknet.nu) by scaryg.shacknet.nu with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 176dQo-000EHm-00; Sat, 11 May 2002 16:25:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 16:25:30 -0400 From: ScaryG To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft Updates?? Message-Id: <20020511162530.0dcdf1d0.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020511130849.009dc780@pop.netzero.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20020511130849.009dc780@pop.netzero.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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 On Sat, 11 May 2002 13:09:24 -0400 Lord Raiden wrote: > Ok, now I feel stupid. But what are soft updates and what > advantages do they have? I was reading along in the group and > just hit across them. My advice is to search the archives. SoftUpdates has been discussed at great length MANY times already ;-) In a word, with FreeBSD 4.4+ I would say SoftUpdates can be your friend. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scary Gerry -- Senior Systems Manager freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu -For web-hosting, DNS Services or PHP & MySql programming see www.interpool.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message