From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 15:35:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (pleb.cs.uct.ac.za [137.158.132.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22DA14C92 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA24002; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:34:55 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:34:53 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@pleb.cs.uct.ac.za Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: David Greenman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.cdrom.com using soft-updates? In-Reply-To: <199906142223.PAA29084@implode.root.com> Message-ID: X-Mobile: +27 82 9907663 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yn Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Greenman wrote: > I was using it on /tmp, but had some periodic soft-updates related crashes. >I believe the cause of those has been fixed, but I'm not adventuresome enough >to turn it back on right now to find out. Would softupdates make a big difference in an environment where it's primarily reading, and not writing data ? --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message