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On 12/04/12 22:50, Rick Miller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was
> not enabled for the root filesystem.  I tried looking for it earlier,
> but failed to locate it.  Is there someone who knows where it is?
>
> --
> Rick
>
Hi Rick

Maybe in the FAQ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html#safe-softupdates