From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 21:53:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3A0150D4 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:53:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 120IF0-0006wb-00; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:53:46 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:53:40 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: David Schwartz Cc: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com, FreeBSD Stable Subject: RE: SOFTUPDATES In-Reply-To: <000001bf4b6b$c07acb40$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, David Schwartz wrote: ... > Enabling softupdates on / is not recommended primarily because that > filesystem is not frequently written to. Another reason not to enable > softupdates on / is that you may not have enough free space to do a 'make > world' (softupdates delays the returning of empty space to the filesystem). > One final reason is possible increased risk. I don't know anyone who recommends against softupdates on root. I understand it just isn't exactly straightforward to enable (see archives) I don't understand your comment about "make world", as I don't see how that would be a problem, unless you only have a tiny amount of free space in "/". > DS Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message