Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 22:39:51 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: soft update should be default Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.33.0105042238270.1252-100000@topperwein> In-Reply-To: <20010504213412.3ee36a4f.tadayuki@mediaone.net>
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On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tadayuki OKADA wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001 20:04:43 -0500 > Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> wrote: > > It only adds performance... the whole idea of soft updates is to get > > async speed with sync reliability. Nothing is more reliable than > > synchronous writes, since data is verified absolutely as it is written. > I've heard that it always keeps consistency. > So you can skip fsck after the crash. > #I don't know the detail, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong. I've had a number of crashes recently while trying to get my new Thunderbird box up and running with the disk from my old box. I have softupdates enabled on two partitions, yet they still fsck on the way back up after a crash (and, at 18GB each, it takes awhile). Next time I play games, I'm mounting them read-only first! -- Chris BeHanna "This isn't a throttle; it's a *rheostat*!" Software Engineer behanna@zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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