Date: 16 Dec 2000 04:38:15 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: flag <flag@libero.it>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, danh@gelatinous.com, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" Message-ID: <xzp4s05ghnc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:18:00 -0800 (PST)" References: <XFMail.001215151800.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > Umm, if / is mounted read-only you can tunefs it. i.e., in single user mode > after boot, or drop to single user and use 'mount -o ro -u /' then do the > tunefs. However, it doesn't buy you much on /, and there is still some risk > with it, so I'd not recommend it for /. On the contrary - if you have a fairly standard setup with /tmp on the root partition, you will benefit a lot from enabling softupdates on it. As to the risks, nowadays I'd say the odds of the softupdates code exhibiting a noticeable bug are about the same (or less) as those of a physical drive failure. YMMV. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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