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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:19:52 +0100
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
Subject:   Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)
Message-ID:  <20010207111952.B484@nebula.cybercable.fr>
In-Reply-To: <41626.981533532@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:12:12AM %2B0100
References:  <nospam-3a8102a6ad0a69e@maxim.gbch.net> <41626.981533532@critter>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <nospam-3a8102a6ad0a69e@maxim.gbch.net>, Greg Black writes:
> >Matt Dillon wrote:
> >
> >It seems to me that you're saying that softupdates is now the
> >recommended way to go -- so why does 4.2-Release still have the
> >dire warnings in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates?  Is that file
> >obsolete, or do the warnings still apply?
> 
> I think that file is obsolete by now.
> 
> I also think we should make newfs turn softupdates on by default in
> -current.

What do you think of what NetBSD implemented ? softupdates is now enabled via
a mount option. This seems cleaner than the tunefs -n enable thing.

Maxime
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