Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:17:27 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5 Message-ID: <20020130191727.017CE4078@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020130175334.80A615D10@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020130175334.80A615D10@ptavv.es.net>
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On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:53 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:09:14 +0300 (MSK)
> > From: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > Then the difference lays only in the fact that on 4.5 the softupdates
> > flag can be turned on in the sysinstall procedure?
>
> No. I means that sysinstall turns on softupdates for all non-root,
> non-swap partitions by default. Under 4.4 you had to tell sysinstall
> that you wanted softupdates (with the 'S' command). There is no change
> to the functionality in 4.5, only to the default operation.
Does 4.5 also leave write-caching on by default? If so, I think that's a
terrible mistake. Would I be correct in assuming it's way to late to get
this reconsidered?
(And what list ought I have been reading to have known about these plans?)
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
>
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