From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 8 16:11:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1BD14D1D for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA13031; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:09:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:09:03 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: jfesler@gigo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How stable is soft updates? Message-ID: <19990408180902.E11572@futuresouth.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:54:23AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:54:23AM -0400, a little birdie told me that Bill Fumerola remarked > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 jfesler@gigo.com wrote: > > > 1: how stable is it :-) > > I have never had a panic on a machine that ran softupdates. > > > 3: How do we tunefs "/" ? > > Even with the above confidence, I would never tune my root partition to > have softupdates. > > That 'no-no' buzzer goes on in the back of my head whenever I think about > doing that. Seconded. I'm putting together a new workstation now, and I'm within a hair of mounting / 'sync' (/var and /tmp are seperate partitions, of course) --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message