Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:39:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld : problem 1 (softupdates) Message-ID: <19990822233927.D8305@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <43184.935385968@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 07:26:08AM %2B0200 References: <19990820145441.A62433@nuxi.com> <43184.935385968@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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> > Softupdates doesn't buy you anything on reads -- just writes. So unless > > you have it turned on for / because /tmp is on /, you aren't getting > > anything out of softupdates than frustration. > > Does softupdates score you something over MFS for /tmp ? Nope. MFS's are async by default. One of the big advantages of softupdates is the speed of full async mounts, with the stability of sync mounts. With an MFS, you newfs at every reboot, so you don't care if a crash pukes on your fs. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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