Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:40:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: chris reaume <chris@saturn.aepnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates and laptops.. is it safe? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912141439120.84748-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912140038220.68990-100000@saturn.aepnet.com>
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, chris reaume wrote: >well, about an hour ago I enabled softupdates on my vaio, rebooted and was >going to test how long it took to compile a kernel. I got sidetracked >playing with usb and seeing what happened when I ran strings on the ugen0 >device that my usb floppy apparently connects to, and lo and behold the >machine rebooted in the middle of the compile. now this didn't surprise >me as I really had no business diddling the device in such a fashion, but >I was crossing my fingers to see what the fsck would look like. not a >single error. it just works absolutely perfectly! :) > So you've had no problems with it? Does it speed up the system noticeably? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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