From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 17: 2:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD99537B40F for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a031.otenet.gr [212.205.215.31]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8T02SR17767 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 03:02:29 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8SMQow71842; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:26:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:26:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ffs and softupdates Message-ID: <20010929012649.A71720@hades.hell.gr> References: <007501c1483e$ff119880$21b4a8c0@pretorian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007501c1483e$ff119880$21b4a8c0@pretorian> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ 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) wrote: > 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... You can find more about softupdates by reading the handbook (see the section ``Tuning Disks''): http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/configtuning-disk.html > Im currently running UFS. and is it possible to upfrade to FFS with > softupdates ..from UFS without destroying the current file system. Yep. Very possible, indeed. The handbook cited above explains a few things about softupdates. If you have the kernel sources installed, you can also check out the following file: % more /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message