From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 20:49:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A53216A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:49:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAFF443D2F for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:49:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D7JbJ-0002LJ-E8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:40:46 +0100 Received: from office.wingnet.net ([216.64.98.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:40:45 +0100 Received: from jesse by office.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:40:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 22:13:01 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <200503031839.15265.jesse@wingnet.net> <4227AF9F.5070308@eng.ufl.edu> <1668898257.20050304081207@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: office.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:49:59 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Jesse Guardiani writes: > >> Then why doesn't sysinstall enable soft updates on the root FS by >> default? > > Because the root is not often written, and any data loss on the root is > likely to have more negative effects than on other directories (often it > would be something like a kernel rebuild). So sysinstall turns it off by > default for the root. But you can turn it on if you want to. > >> I don't. It hasn't worked well in the past. > > Soft updates has been improved in recent releases. It is now designed > to physically write data back to the disk in a way that keeps the > directory coherent (if not necessarily up to date) at all times. How recent are we talking about? I'm about to try softupdates on a giant root partition simply because everyone keeps telling me that it should work fine. My data is currently backed up, so I have nothing to lose. And I can test your theories. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net