From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 15: 4: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B8B37B873 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e6OKxqG16718; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:59:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007242059.e6OKxqG16718@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Linh Pham Cc: Alfred Perlstein , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:59:52 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Linh Pham wrote: +------------------ | What exactly are softupdates? +------------------ Softupdates are a way to avoid much of the synchronous write activity to ufs. Essentially it means that your system has the create/delete performance of running the filesystem in async mode with few of the risks. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message