Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:39:21 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> To: Scott Hess <scott@avantgo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and async Message-ID: <38A216C9.5A2E6719@nwlink.com> References: <38A2103E.815B0C4C@nwlink.com> <0bdb01bf7365$2c465080$1e80000a@avantgo.com>
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Scott Hess wrote: > > "R Joseph Wright" <rjoseph@nwlink.com> wrote: > > Is it okay to have both on the same filesystem? > > No, you cannot run both on the same filesystem. [Aside: what would be the > point? async+softupdates==async.] So softupdates does the same thing as async? > > And, how do I go about > > enabling softupdates on my / partition? > > Since softupdates is enabled via tunefs, your best bet is to drop the disk > in another system and tunefs it from there. OTOH, if you've followed the > various partitioning recommendations, your / filesystem is small and > essentially read-only, so softupdates won't do squat for it. I have 100MB /, 40MB /var, 256MB swap, and the rest is /usr. Is softupdates generally only done for /usr? -- R Joseph Wright *I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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