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From: furio ercolessi <furio@spin.it>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefano Riva <sriva@gufi.org>
Subject: Re: Cannot start softupdates, why?
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On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 10:01:35AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 May 2000 at  0:27:21 +0200, furio ercolessi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to enable softupdates on my /var partition, but
> > I am having difficulties  (I am a FreeBSD newbie migrating
> > from Linux exactly to improve filesystem performance; please
> > bear with me).
> >
> Did you run config?

No, I didn't.  What a fool I am.  Thanks, Greg!

> > to show it: I ran performance tests without seeing any difference
> > between "enabled" and "disabled".

Now I see the difference, and it is astounding.

furio ercolessi
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