From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 22 11:36:59 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A2137B400; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0MJaol56389; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:36:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0MJUPx74518; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:30:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:30:09 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020122.123009.119858796.imp@village.org> To: des@ofug.org Cc: benno@jeamland.net, mckusick@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_alloc.c ffs_extern.h ffs_softdep.c From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <200201220617.g0M6HOx41725@freefall.freebsd.org> <1011697733.442.0.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Benno Rice writes: : > This change breaks kernels without softupdates. : : 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) Because softupdates are useless on systems that have low/no update rates and the extra memory that the softupdates code can be reclaimed by turning off the option. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message