From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 22: 5:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F7115280 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:05:42 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Tom" Cc: , "FreeBSD Stable" Subject: RE: SOFTUPDATES Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:05:42 -0800 Message-ID: <000001bf4b79$69c8b330$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 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 "/". Most people keep the amount of free space on / minimal. I did a default FreeBSD install on a machine, and it did this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 31743 19641 9563 67% / /dev/da0s1f 3929331 982235 2632750 27% /usr /dev/da0s1e 29751 2220 25151 8% /var DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message