Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:47:18 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea Message-ID: <20020515204323.G19317-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <B907EB7F.D019%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ian wrote: I> > I> (My / filesystems tend to have nothing in them except kernel, modules, and I> > I> /etc, so I can't imagine it making a huge performance difference anyway.) I> > I> > Hmm, well, but then in the unlikely case you can't boot cleanly and have I> > to fix broken things manually, /bin and /sbin are needed, too. I> > I> > Oh, at the second thought, I've realized that you just missed 'em from I> > list -- standard kernel tries to execute /sbin/init, yeah? ;-) I> I> Heh, yeah, silly me, those are there too. I> I> But I've always been under the impression that softupdates helps with write I> performance, especially writing filesystem metadata, and very little writing I> happens on my root filesystems, I believe. A bit of. If you mount / with atime turned off. And if not -- each time you access e.g. /etc/resolv.conf.... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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