From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 14:32:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1E814D0E for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:32:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (IDENT:5001@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00725; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:34:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:34:29 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Softupdates on root partition? In-Reply-To: <200001042218.XAA35215@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > 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. > I do a make buildworld | installworld two or three times per week. I have moved /tmp off of the root to /usr/tmp and I have a large and separate /var that I use for tmp sometimes as well, via linking. I also remake XFree a lot. So thanks for this information. > > 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. > I will experiment a little with the softupdates on root and see how it works. Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message