Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:48:00 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: "Benjamin P. Grubin" <bgrubin@pobox.com>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: softupdates on / Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107060045440.38148-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20010705192828.B25217@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: :In the last episode (Jul 05), Benjamin P. Grubin said: :> As of a month ago or so, there was some discussion that concluded it :> was unsafe to enable softupdates on a root partition. Is it safe to :> go back in the water there, now? : :The 2 drawbacks with SU are : :1 - You can't immediately reuse the space occupied by a file you just : deleted; this may bite you if you do an installworld and don't have : 20MB free on /. when it comes to installing /sbin, you need 18MB : for the new binaries, but you can't reuse the 18MB for the : just-deleted binaries. I've dodged that problem by SIGSTOPing installworld a couple times during the /sbin install, waiting for softupdates to catchup, and then SIGCONTing it. That's a pain; it's ugly, but it does work. Easier than a reboot, sometimes. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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