From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 10 14:36:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aaz.links.ru (aaz.links.ru [193.125.152.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3437637B69C for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from babolo@localhost) by aaz.links.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA14393; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:36:10 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <200102102236.BAA14393@aaz.links.ru> Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) In-Reply-To: <200102100231.f1A2Vgd20496@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at "Feb 9, 1 06:31:42 pm" To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:36:09 +0300 (MSK) Cc: gjb@gbch.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon writes: > :Matt Dillon wrote: > :> Yes. In general softupdates will make the entire filesystem safer. > :Does it make sense to use softupdates on file systems like / and > :/usr which have little file creation/removal? > I have had softupdates turned on for all of my mount points for over > a year. > > For /, the only issue is that if you have too small a root parition a > 'make installworld' may run the filesystem out of space faster then > softupdates can free the blocks. My root partition is always 128M > for that reason (and also so I can throw a few kernel.debug images in > there). > > My recommendation is to turn softupdates on for everything you have, > and for us to make it a newfs default as well. At least in -stable. You use softupdates turned on for all of your ufs. Understand. What is the reason to use softupdates for file system with only atime updates on it? -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message