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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:22:40 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
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To: Mario Doria <madd@tecdigital.net>
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Subject: Re: journalised filesystem
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Mario Doria wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A quick question, is it safe to use softupdates on all the partitions of a
> disk? or there is a catch for using soft updates on every partition of a
> system?

The only problem I have EVER had with softupdates, is that if your
system is very low on RAM, running softupdates is SLOWER than running
sync. (I have not done extensive tests on this) It's till reliable,
though.

-Bill

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