From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 22 23:39:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA61414D87 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-3-54.ucdavis.edu [169.237.17.54]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14121; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:39:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA08843; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:39:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld : problem 1 (softupdates) Message-ID: <19990822233927.D8305@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990820145441.A62433@nuxi.com> <43184.935385968@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <43184.935385968@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 07:26:08AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Softupdates doesn't buy you anything on reads -- just writes. So unless > > you have it turned on for / because /tmp is on /, you aren't getting > > anything out of softupdates than frustration. > > Does softupdates score you something over MFS for /tmp ? Nope. MFS's are async by default. One of the big advantages of softupdates is the speed of full async mounts, with the stability of sync mounts. With an MFS, you newfs at every reboot, so you don't care if a crash pukes on your fs. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message