From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 15 9:40: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A993E37B409 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 09:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4FGdwG47245 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 10:39:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:39:59 -0600 Subject: Re: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea From: Ian To: freebsd-stable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020515202300.I19317-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Dmitry Morozovsky > > I> (My / filesystems tend to have nothing in them except kernel, modules, and > I> /etc, so I can't imagine it making a huge performance difference anyway.) > > Hmm, well, but then in the unlikely case you can't boot cleanly and have > to fix broken things manually, /bin and /sbin are needed, too. > > Oh, at the second thought, I've realized that you just missed 'em from > list -- standard kernel tries to execute /sbin/init, yeah? ;-) > > Sincerely, > D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] Heh, yeah, silly me, those are there too. But I've always been under the impression that softupdates helps with write performance, especially writing filesystem metadata, and very little writing happens on my root filesystems, I believe. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message