From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 15 9:47:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E921E37B407 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 09:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (marck@localhost) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4FGlIZ29277; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:47:18 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:47:18 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Ian Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020515204323.G19317-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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