From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 6:40:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9EC014C3D for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11xt7S-0004vm-00; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:40:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA84874; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:40:02 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:40:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: chris reaume Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates and laptops.. is it safe? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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