From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 5 22:48:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (smtp-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B38837B407 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0DF6FE6; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:48:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:48:00 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-X-Sender: To: Dan Nelson Cc: "Benjamin P. Grubin" , Subject: Re: softupdates on / In-Reply-To: <20010705192828.B25217@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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