From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 19:13:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EA04332 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:13:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA69489; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:12:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:12:52 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Scott Hess , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and async Message-ID: <20000209211252.A69166@dan.emsphone.com> References: <38A2103E.815B0C4C@nwlink.com> <0bdb01bf7365$2c465080$1e80000a@avantgo.com> <38A216C9.5A2E6719@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38A216C9.5A2E6719@nwlink.com>; from "R Joseph Wright" on Wed Feb 9 17:39:21 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 09), R Joseph Wright said: > Scott Hess wrote: > > "R Joseph Wright" 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? No. async + softupdates = async, just like a bucket of mud + one glass of water = a bucket of mud. > I have 100MB /, 40MB /var, 256MB swap, and the rest is /usr. Is > softupdates generally only done for /usr? Softupdates is especially useful on filesystems where lots of file creation/deletion happens. Since / should be written to very infrequently, softupdates doesn't help that much. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message