Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:18:36 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Softupdates on root partition? Message-ID: <200001042218.XAA35215@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <84sldj$2j7p$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Ben C. O. Grimm wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> On 3 Jan 2000 18:25:53 +0200, Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is "safe" to enable softupdates on the root partition?
If your root partition is large enough to not overflow during
a "make installworld" (if you do that at all), then it should
be safe.
> There is no added value in using softupdates on /. Softupdates
> performs best on disks with a lot of meta activity, like file
> creation, file deletion, directory creation etc. This is typically
> never the case in /.
Never say never. :-) There are atime updates, unless the
partition is mounted read-only or with the "noatime" flag.
Regards
Oliver
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