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Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Jesse Guardiani writes:
> 
>> How recent are we talking about?
> 
> In the 5.x timeframe, I believe, but I don't remember exactly when the
> improvements were made.  I recall that soft updates are now encouraged
> on just about any partition.
> 
> I've never had any trouble with it, but my system is lightly loaded and
> has hardly come close to being put through every possible scenario.

Seems to be working quite well with just / and swap. I guess I was running
into either old softupdate issues or ATAng issues when I ran 5.2.1 on my
laptop.

Thanks for the advice everyone!

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