From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 3:26: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wirehub.nl (smtp.wirehub.nl [195.86.25.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2487D15131 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 03:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ben.Grimm@wirehub.net) Received: from ben.wirehub.nl (ben.wirehub.nl [195.86.25.13]) by smtp.wirehub.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA04319 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:26:00 +0100 (CET) From: "Ben C. O. Grimm" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Softupdates on root partition? Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:26:00 +0100 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Engineering Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 Jan 2000 18:25:53 +0200, Gene Harris wrote: > It is "safe" to enable softupdates on the root partition? > I have been experimenting with softupdates on my data > partitions and /usr for a while with nice results. I have > hesitated using it on /. There is no added value in using softupdates on /. Softupdates performs best on disks with a lot of meta activity, like file creation, file deletion, directory creation etc. This is typically never the case in /. -- - Ben C. O. Grimm ----------------- Ben.Grimm@wirehub.net - - Wirehub! Internet Engineering - http://www.wirehub.net/ - - Wirehub! Backbone --- http://doema.wirehub.net/wirehub/ - - Private Ponderings ------- http://libertas.wirehub.net/ - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message