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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





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