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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_alloc.c ffs_extern.h ffs_softdep.c
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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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