Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:16:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: danh@gelatinous.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" Message-ID: <20001211121635.F16205@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20001211195028.74138.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com>; from danh@gelatinous.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:50:28PM -0000 References: <20001211195028.74138.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com>
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* danh@gelatinous.com <danh@gelatinous.com> [001211 11:50] wrote: > Hi, is there anything wrong with enabling softupdates > on my / partition? Yes and no. Yes because the delayed deletion "feature" of softupdates may cause you to run out of space on / when doing installworld unless / is pretty large. I use ~120 MB to get around this, but I may not need that much. No because if your /tmp is in / then tempfile creation and deletion will be signifigantly faster which can really speed up applications especially stupid ones that use lockfiles in /tmp. I recommend using softupdates on / as long as you have enough space, 120-150 megs, with disk speeds these days fsck'ing ~120MB doesn't take that long. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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