From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 10:40:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.interlog.com (smtp.interlog.com [207.34.202.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011F837B7E4 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:40:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drek@smtp.interlog.com) Received: from shell1.interlog.com (shell1.interlog.com [154.11.168.199]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA26708; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:40:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by shell1.interlog.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA08371; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:40:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:40:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Agent Drek X-Sender: drek@shell1.interlog.com To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates In-Reply-To: <200006061705.NAA01983@entropy.tmok.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: > i setup a FreeBSD file server at work, and during a dd to a floppy it got > hard read errors and paniced the machine (woo-hoo!! i hate floppy drives) > so at that point i thought, maybe i should enable softupdates. was the floppy write protected? I got bit by that bug previously. I don't think that softupdates will help you there ... in other areas? possibly. > > but what should i know before i do this? this machine has to be stable, so > i won't do it if it introduces instability (even if it makes recovering > easier) and also what about performance? it's hooked up to a hardware RAID > box if that makes any difference. > > thanks, > > -brian > -- Agent Drek Big Animation Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.bigstudios.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message