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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:49:57 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Annoying gotcha with soft updates
Message-ID:  <20010306184957.A8149@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103052220.JAA29725@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:20:36AM %2B1100
References:  <200103052220.JAA29725@lightning.itga.com.au>

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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:20:36AM +1100, a little birdie told me
that Gregory Bond remarked
> 
> Put /tmp on a ramdisk and /var in its own partition and there is no need for
> softupdates on /.

FWIW, I have seperate partitions for /tmp and /var, and / is mounted
sync.  Does some interesting things to installworld times, but it makes
me feel warm and fuzzy   :)

/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, synchronous)



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      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"

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