Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:39:59 -0600 From: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea Message-ID: <B907EB7F.D019%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020515202300.I19317-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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> From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> > > I> (My / filesystems tend to have nothing in them except kernel, modules, and > I> /etc, so I can't imagine it making a huge performance difference anyway.) > > Hmm, well, but then in the unlikely case you can't boot cleanly and have > to fix broken things manually, /bin and /sbin are needed, too. > > Oh, at the second thought, I've realized that you just missed 'em from > list -- standard kernel tries to execute /sbin/init, yeah? ;-) > > Sincerely, > D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] Heh, yeah, silly me, those are there too. But I've always been under the impression that softupdates helps with write performance, especially writing filesystem metadata, and very little writing happens on my root filesystems, I believe. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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