From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 14 18:49:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA2537B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 947F562D0B; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:49:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:49:37 -0500 From: GH To: Jerry Murdock Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates Negatives? Message-ID: <20010714204937.A21416@over-yonder.net> References: <007101c108ca$290209e0$3300a8c0@mandy> <017701c108d4$e1c5a540$0201a8c0@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <017701c108d4$e1c5a540$0201a8c0@bellsouth.net>; from jmurdock@itraktech.com on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:11:22PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:11:22PM -0400, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > Is there any reason NOT to use softupdates? > > Everything I've read is only positive, save a couple of warnings in a 7/2000 > readme about chronically full file systems and multiple processes deleting > large numbers of files. Neither of these would apply. One of the reasons is less certainty of integrity than async or sync sync. This is probably not an issue for you. Also, if you have limited space on an SU partition, you may have problems with deleting a large number of files and immediately writing new stuff. (This is mainly a problem on / partitons with SU when doing installworlds. IMHO, running SU on / is Just Crazy.) > Thanks, > Jerry gh -- > What, no one sings along with Ricky Martin anymore? My kid sister does (but then, she prefers pico to vi ...) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian, alt.sysadmin.recovery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message