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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:20:13 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_alloc.c ffs_extern.h ffs_softdep.c
Message-ID:  <20020122102013.A21075@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpk7uao9l5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:26:30PM %2B0100
References:  <200201220617.g0M6HOx41725@freefall.freebsd.org> <1011697733.442.0.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> <xzpk7uao9l5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:26:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> writes:
> > This change breaks kernels without softupdates.
>=20
> Why do we even bother supporting that?  (apart from the fact that the
> installation kernel is built without SU, though it would greatly
> benefit from it: in most cases, installation is bounded by the
> filesystem write speed)

I don't think softupdates should be mandatory.  From time to time
there have been bugs introduced (into -current at least), which make
it desirable for some people to turn it off for a while.

Kris

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