From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 7:10:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB02E37B424 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 07:10:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 154kCh-0000I2-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2001 15:10:35 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4TEAYe26238 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2001 15:10:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:10:34 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best filesystem performance for a laptop? (based on -hackers thread) Message-ID: <20010529151033.A26186@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There was a recent thread on filesytems on hackers, and i'd like to winnow out the chaff and figure out what is the best set of parameters for a laptop system. What is the best combination for a basic workstation setup? With or without softupdates, and with or without write-caching? jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message