Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:01:12 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> Cc: Aur?lien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <20020819210012.J1495-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org>
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Chris Faulhaber wrote: CF> > What is the reason that the mount point (by default, /) hasn't the flag CF> > for soft-updates by default (during the installation), can I set it CF> > without data lost ? CF> > CF> CF> This is a more conservative approach (similiar to not using async CF> mounts by default unlike other OS's) due to the importance of the CF> data on the root partition. And, since there are normally very CF> few writes to the root partition, unlike /var and others, soft- CF> updates would not provide much of a performance boost anyways. Well, what about atime updates? Or, did I miss something? Then, next thought: why don't we mount / noatime? Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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