Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:07:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Softupdates question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007092102150.2764-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <20000709005612.A89313@localhost.localdomain>
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: > I'm upgrading to 4.0 and the softupdates option looks particularly > attractive. I'd like to use it because of power outages. > > My question is: Which filesystem(s) should softupdate be applied > to? All of them? Or, are some better than others? What about the > root filesystem? This is really just a question of taste. I think softupdates are stable enough to use for production filesystems. I have my / filesystem mounted 'sync' (paranoid, not much IO anyway) and the rest with softupdates. I have been very happy with it. > If so, is it possible to umount all filesystems and run the tunefs > program? Yep. Best done in single-user. :) In order to tunefs the root filesystem, it should be read-only mounted. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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