From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 6 16:50:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F28D37B71B for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f270nwq17882; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:49:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:49:57 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Gregory Bond Cc: Kevin Oberman , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying gotcha with soft updates Message-ID: <20010306184957.A8149@futuresouth.com> References: <200103052220.JAA29725@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103052220.JAA29725@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:20:36AM +1100 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message