Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:56:52 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! Message-ID: <20050304105652.GB742@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <p0621025abe4da98f8c24@[128.113.24.47]> References: <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org> <200503031839.15265.jesse@wingnet.net> <12498610.20050304062450@wanadoo.fr> <p0621025abe4da98f8c24@[128.113.24.47]>
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--u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:00AM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > I have run with softupdates on for '/' on all my systems, for > a few years now. It has not caused me any problems that I > know of, but then the way I define my partitions is probably a > lot different than what most people do. >=20 > If we thought that softupdates made it *significantly* more > likely that users would *lose* data, then we would not turn it > on for any partitions! Anthony's probably confusing softupdates + write caching on modern ATA disks; the last undermines some of softupdates' fundamental assumptions (ie the drive lies about data being written to disk) such that it is indeed more likely in the event of a powerfailure that data is lost. Then again, write caching on modern ATA disks without softupdates also is not really safe; so the win of turning off just softupdates is not that big. --Stijn --=20 There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are 'Why are people born?', 'Why do they die?', and `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?' -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCKD70Y3r/tLQmfWcRAs9uAKCwpRIMdRGLOqYOI1KMP+QLt159RQCeP4jV pnOUdixftGr6SpfDG3db6vg= =NXuH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24--
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