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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:31:12 -0400
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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 02:37  PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote:
>> http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm
>>
>> Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people?
>
> Yes, it's not very difficult to guess why.  If you read the tuning(7)
> manpage in recent 4.x FreeBSD systems you will notice that even the
> order in which you lay out the partitions on the disks ruding
> installation time can play a significant role in filesystem speed.
> Softupdates are disabled by default, and for a good reason too
> (reliability is more important than raw speed to the people who
> install FreeBSD for the first time; if it isn't they can always enable
> softupdates later on).  [...]

Is softupdates known to be unreliable, or is it merely a distrust of
new code?

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