From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 15: 2:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailext02.compaq.com (mailext02.compaq.com [207.18.199.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 047661553C for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext02.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 6B8869A8D0; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint01.compaq.com [207.18.199.34]) by mailext02.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F2A90D82; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:33 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 5BCF2825C3; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [155.186.83.42]) by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35F478B43; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:25 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.sitaranetworks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00671; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:00:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:00:52 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Agent Drek Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: softupdates... the sequel Message-ID: <19991211130052.I355@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:41:56AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 2:41:56 -0500, Agent Drek wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 03:48:48 +0000 (GMT) >> From: Jonathon McKitrick >> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: softupdates... the sequel >> >> So, for an average joe running FreeBSD on a laptop with an UltraIDA drive >> (i guess that matters now ;-) does it make any sense to install >> softupdates? Or is it negligible? Or am i sacrificing reliability? >> >> Just so i don't look foolish, here is m guess: >> Yes, i will gain some performance >> No, i will not lose reliability >> >> Correct me if i'm wrong. ;-) > > from sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates : > > IMPORTANT NOTE: The Soft Updates code is currently in ALPHA test. > Use at your own risk! That comment has suffered bit rot and has now been removed. > I would like to know if I should run this code on a production > machine. I've been told that this message is probably just out of > date but ... It's out of date. However, we have seen some strange crashes with soft updates, and I'm not convinced that they're not due to soft updates. Having said that, I'm writing this message on my laptop with soft updates enabled. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message