Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:12:49 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remount Filesystems Message-ID: <3B14F1D1.C7CA5406@iowna.com> References: <SAK.2001.05.24.raeessor@support10> <20010525094056.B37339@itouchnz.itouch> <3B0D8A80.596CC3B7@iowna.com> <20010525103021.B40969@itouchnz.itouch> <20010530002714.L14366@dell.dannyland.org>
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dannyman wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:30:21AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:26:09PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > [...] > > > I don't understand why you'd bother with softupdates on / anyway? Just > > > from my perspective, I try to keep the / fs as reliable as possible and, > > > although softupdates is very reliable, it does have a slightly higher > > > incidence of crash corruption than standard sync. > > > > Really? My understanding of softupdates was that it keeps that metadata > > in a more stable state, and thus makes your filesystem *less* prone to > > fsck problems. > > Yes, it keeps meta-data in a more stable state by cacheing it > intelligently in memory before writing it. Thus, the filesystem is less > prone to fsck problems, but you do risk losing data if the metadata is > not written to disk before a crash. What I just became curious about is: would it be possible to mount a filesystem both async and softupdates, and would there be any advantage? -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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