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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:05:42 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com>
To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@razorfish.com>
Subject: RE: Anybody Using the Soft Updates File System?
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 04-Jun-99),
the great prophet Hans-Christoph Steiner once wrote:
> 
> I have just read about the soft updates file system and it sounds very  
> promising.  But the doc I read  
> (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/contrib/sys/softup
> dates/README)  
> said that it was still alpha.
> 
> Has anybody used this in a production environment?  If so, how has it
> worked for you?

I've been using softupdates on my daily-use machines for almost 4 months
now.  These machines are on 24/7 and take quite a lot of disk use (news
server, Samba server, my personal workstation) and I have not had any
problems with softupdates.  In fact, it has saved my butt on several
occasions already.
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