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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:19:36 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
Cc:        Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@razorfish.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Soft updates  [was: journaled filesystem?]
Message-ID:  <19990611221936.A70046@rucus.ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <199906112017.AA114972273@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>; from Mitch Collinsworth on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 04:17:53PM -0400
References:  <199906102247.SAA08096@yaga.razorfish.com> <199906112017.AA114972273@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>

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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
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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