From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 14:18:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EAE14D0E for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA35215; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:18:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:18:36 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001042218.XAA35215@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Softupdates on root partition? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <84sldj$2j7p$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben C. O. Grimm wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > On 3 Jan 2000 18:25:53 +0200, Gene Harris > 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message