Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:12:52 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: Scott Hess <scott@avantgo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and async Message-ID: <20000209211252.A69166@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <38A216C9.5A2E6719@nwlink.com>; from "R Joseph Wright" on Wed Feb 9 17:39:21 GMT 2000 References: <38A2103E.815B0C4C@nwlink.com> <0bdb01bf7365$2c465080$1e80000a@avantgo.com> <38A216C9.5A2E6719@nwlink.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 09), R Joseph Wright said: > 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? 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
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