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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>, Ronald
Subject: Re: Data loss when hard shutdown!
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:21:45 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

> By default in FreeBSD (during the installation phase), softupdates are
> explicitly **not** applied to the root filesystem.  This is
> intentional, but the reason for it I do not know.  I imagine it's
> justified though.

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES

-- 
Bruce Cran