From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 4 19:39: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scully.zoominternet.net (scully.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BED5937B424 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: (qmail 22795 invoked from network); 5 May 2001 02:37:30 -0000 Received: from acs-24-154-28-174.zoominternet.net (HELO topperwein) (24.154.28.174) by scully.zoominternet.net with SMTP; 5 May 2001 02:37:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 22:39:51 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna To: Subject: Re: soft update should be default In-Reply-To: <20010504213412.3ee36a4f.tadayuki@mediaone.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: behanna@mail.zbzoom.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tadayuki OKADA wrote: > 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. I've had a number of crashes recently while trying to get my new Thunderbird box up and running with the disk from my old box. I have softupdates enabled on two partitions, yet they still fsck on the way back up after a crash (and, at 18GB each, it takes awhile). Next time I play games, I'm mounting them read-only first! -- Chris BeHanna "This isn't a throttle; it's a *rheostat*!" Software Engineer behanna@zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message