From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 5 17:28:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A25237B407 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f660SS907824; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:28:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:28:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Benjamin P. Grubin" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates on / Message-ID: <20010705192828.B25217@dan.emsphone.com> References: <00a001c105ac$c730ea30$020aa8c0@gozer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00a001c105ac$c730ea30$020aa8c0@gozer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 05), Benjamin P. Grubin said: > As of a month ago or so, there was some discussion that concluded it > was unsafe to enable softupdates on a root partition. Is it safe to > go back in the water there, now? The 2 drawbacks with SU are 1 - You can't immediately reuse the space occupied by a file you just deleted; this may bite you if you do an installworld and don't have 20MB free on /. when it comes to installing /sbin, you need 18MB for the new binaries, but you can't reuse the 18MB for the just-deleted binaries. 2 - If you create a file, SU doesn't commit it immediately; it waits a bit. If you edit rc.conf and crash (or reboot by power-cycling), you may find you don't have an rc.conf. Both have happened to me enough times that I don't enable SU on / anymore :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message