From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 13:20:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77C2715249 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 70283 invoked by uid 1003); 11 Jun 1999 20:19:36 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:19:36 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft updates [was: journaled filesystem?] Message-ID: <19990611221936.A70046@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <199906102247.SAA08096@yaga.razorfish.com> <199906112017.AA114972273@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199906112017.AA114972273@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>; from Mitch Collinsworth on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 04:17:53PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 1999-06-11 (16:17), Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > Very interesting, thanks. This looks like it will do what I'm after. > If I understand correctly this is already built-in, at least in 3.0 and > later, and to turn it on I just have to 'tunefs -n enable' each > filesystem? You'll have to recompile your kernel after reading the softupdates README file and taking into account what things are said there. > Is anybody here running this? Could I get some testimonials before > I put our whole lab on soft updates? :-) It's a massive improvement. (just don't use it on /) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message