From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 8: 5:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E650B37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:05:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eARG4sc01447; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:04:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:04:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoftUpdates Message-ID: <20001127100454.A15046@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20001127104402.B14194@linux.rainbow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20001127104402.B14194@linux.rainbow>; from "Igor' Robul'" on Mon Nov 27 10:44:02 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 27), Igor' Robul' said: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:26:20PM -0800, Roop Nanuwa wrote: > > Is there any need to use softupdates on the / or the /var > > partitions? I know there's very little I/O on these partitions > _I_ use softupdates on all except /. Works fine, I mean no data loss > etc. But, because /usr is virtually ReadOnly (in my case) you will > not receive many benefits from SoftUpdates. /var have many > writes/reads: log files, mail etc. Also good candidate is /usr/home > (or /home). You could actually make an argument for mounting /var sync. Of all the partitions, that's the one where you don't want to lose data that has been written (either logfiles or mailspool files). If a system crashes while delivering an email, softupdates might delete the message completely rather than risk corrupting the filesystem (or the message might not have even been written to disk). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message