From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 15:47:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E62337B40B for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 61868 invoked by uid 100); 28 Sep 2001 22:47:11 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15284.65007.929404.544250@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:47:11 -0500 To: "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ffs and softupdates In-Reply-To: <93815937@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey) types: > Im running 4.3 release of FBSD....everything is running great . But with as > long as the box is running without reboots ....im wondering about the > advantages or diadvantages of running FFS with softupdates...Im currently > running UFS. and is it possible to upfrade to FFS with softupdates ..from > UFS without destroying the current file system. > any help with tis is greatly appreciated. Softupdates gives you performance at close to async mount speeds with only slightly less reliability than the normal mode. I've been using it for years with no problems. If you have IDE drives and haven't disabled write caching, the the reliability issues are generally immaterial. I seriously doubt that you are running ufs, as there isn't a ufs mount utility in FreeBSD. The mount_ufs mounts ffs file systems, and the name confusion has been around as long as FreeBSD, or close to that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message