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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 20:47:18 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea
Message-ID:  <20020515204323.G19317-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <B907EB7F.D019%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>

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On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ian wrote:

I> > I> (My / filesystems tend to have nothing in them except kernel, modules, and
I> > I> /etc, so I can't imagine it making a huge performance difference anyway.)
I> >
I> > Hmm, well, but then in the unlikely case you can't boot cleanly and have
I> > to fix broken things manually, /bin and /sbin are needed, too.
I> >
I> > Oh, at the second thought, I've realized that you just missed 'em from
I> > list -- standard kernel tries to execute /sbin/init, yeah? ;-)
I>
I> Heh, yeah, silly me, those are there too.
I>
I> But I've always been under the impression that softupdates helps with write
I> performance, especially writing filesystem metadata, and very little writing
I> happens on my root filesystems, I believe.

A bit of. If you mount / with atime turned off. And if not -- each time
you access e.g. /etc/resolv.conf....

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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*** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru ***
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