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From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) 
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Matt Dillon wrote:

>     Yes.  In general softupdates will make the entire filesystem safer.

Does it make sense to use softupdates on file systems like / and
/usr which have little file creation/removal?

Greg


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