From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 15 19:38:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 19:38:19 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EB537B400; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:38:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA87064; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 04:38:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: John Baldwin Cc: flag , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, danh@gelatinous.com, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 16 Dec 2000 04:38:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:18:00 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin 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