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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:09:03 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        jfesler@gigo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How stable is soft updates?
Message-ID:  <19990408180902.E11572@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990408095206.17672R-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:54:23AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904072041410.704-100000@heaven.gigo.com> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990408095206.17672R-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>

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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)



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