From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 21:58:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4E9152DE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40347>; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:53:59 +1000 Content-return: prohibited Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:57:23 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: make install trick In-reply-to: To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Message-Id: <99Oct6.145359est.40347@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <99Oct6.103524est.40351@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1999-Oct-06 11:33:51 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> >I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used >> >an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize >> >a system worries me greatly. >> >> What do you mean by `destabilize'? ... > softupdates can crash the system when this >happens, not a mere application, but the entire system can lock up. I don't recall this coming up in this thread. Last I recall, that bug was supposed to be fixed (and Kirk(?) wanted anyone who still saw it to report it). Unfortunately, I can't find that thread in the archives :-(. >Which isn't an option unless you dedicate a partition for /tmp >which is pretty wasteful imo. I guess we disagree on this. My feeling is that write activity on root should be minimised to minimise the risk that root will be inconsistent following a crash. Secondly, there's a security viewpoint that users should not have write access anywhere in the root or /usr filesystems. Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5982 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message