Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:05:02 -0400 From: "Gregory Keefe" <keefeg@keefeg.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Softupdates Message-ID: <002301c1e31e$1dbe2850$9865fea9@GPC>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C1E2FC.966C7210 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD Claim: http://www.freebsd.org/features.html Soft Updates allows improved file system performance without sacrificing safety and reliability A Unix Expert's Claim: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html ``Do not use async or softupdates filesystems. If you do, and if your = system crashes at the wrong moment, you will lose [data].'' http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html ``Beware that NFS, async filesystems, and softupdates filesystems may discard files that were not safely written to disk before an outage.'' Which should I believe? ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C1E2FC.966C7210 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>FreeBSD Claim:<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.freebsd.org/features.html">http://www.freebsd.org/feat= ures.html</A><BR>Soft=20 Updates allows improved file system performance without = sacrificing<BR>safety=20 and reliability<BR><BR>A Unix Expert's Claim:<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html">http://cr.yp.to/qmail= /faq/reliability.html</A><BR>``Do=20 not use async or softupdates filesystems. If you do, and if your=20 system<BR>crashes at the wrong moment, you will lose [data].''<BR><BR><A = href=3D"http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html">http://cr.yp.to/daemon= tools/multilog.html</A><BR>``Beware=20 that NFS, async filesystems, and softupdates filesystems may<BR>discard = files=20 that were not safely written to disk before an outage.''<BR><BR>Which = should I=20 believe?<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C1E2FC.966C7210-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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