From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 13:27:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2703B16A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:27:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7194C43D46 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:27:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from anb (anb.matik.com.br [200.152.83.34]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k26DR0dR052185 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:27:00 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:26:53 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44077E79.2080708@rogers.com> <17417.618.690291.106171@satchel.alerce.com> <20060306114127.GG29207@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20060306114127.GG29207@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603061026.53599.joao@matik.com.br> X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (msrv.matik.com.br) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:27:03 -0000 On Monday 06 March 2006 08:41, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > AFAIK soft-updates don't put your root partition at risk _directly_. > You might run into problems, _if_ your root partition is rather > small, during installworld/installkernel. This is due to the > delayed freeing of data blocks when files are erased. > So your root partition might fill up even if there should be > plenty of space. > I believe that softupdates is usefull only for partitions where writing=20 ocurres what normally is not the case on the root partition > This has _never_ happened to me, though. My root partitions are all > at least 128 M in size and /var is _always_ separate and /tmp is > a symlink to /var/tmp. > this is a good idea but not default, standard install suggest a small /tmp= =20 partition I guess what probably is even better if you expect lots of r/w on= =20 it > I did configure quite a few servers with soft-updates on all > partitions, when soft-updates were rather new and I was > excited about the performance gain and didn't know about > the possible problems with / - as I said, I never had a > single problem with that setup. softupdate except for / is the default I guess so you do not need to enable= it Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br