From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 4 18:24:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (chmls05.mediaone.net [24.147.1.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9F237B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tadayuki@mediaone.net) Received: from photoniii (h0005025b549e.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.67.188]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f451Nxx22920; Fri, 4 May 2001 21:24:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 21:34:12 -0400 From: Tadayuki OKADA To: Andrew Hesford Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft update should be default Message-Id: <20010504213412.3ee36a4f.tadayuki@mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <20010504200443.A20673@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010504205142.1a7013e6.tadayuki@mediaone.net> <20010504200443.A20673@cec.wustl.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.64 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 May 2001 20:04:43 -0500 Andrew Hesford wrote: > It only adds performance... the whole idea of soft updates is to get > async speed with sync reliability. Nothing is more reliable than > synchronous writes, since data is verified absolutely as it is written. I've heard that it always keeps consistency. So you can skip fsck after the crash. #I don't know the detail, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong. > Still... I do agree it should be the default, or at least an option that > can be set at install time. I think this summer I will be reinstalling > my system, to clean up the cruft that ~1/2 year of learning has built up > on my system. It would sure come in handy then. You can set it from the menu if you install 4.3-RELEASE. -- Tadayuki OKADA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message