Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:14:42 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does softupdate help squid ? Message-ID: <20080317201442.GA26672@torus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <200803171934.06136.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <47DE312E.2030209@esiee.fr> <20080317201730.G88797@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200803171934.06136.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
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--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:34:04PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 19:17:58 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I'm setting up a squid cache (3.0.2) machine FreeBSD 7.0 based and I > > > wonder if softupdates could help (make it faster ) or not the cache > > > partition ? > > > > i would say it's absolutely needed. > > > > anyway - any reason to not use soft updates on every filesystem? >=20 > What exactly is a soft update? It's a bit like a hard update, but it won't hurt your disks as much if your system crashes... ;-P On a more serious note, it's a technique for ensuring the integrity of disks after a system crash or power failure. Like journalling, they=20 don't guarantee data won't be lost, but instead that the disks will be=20 in a consistent state at recovery. There are many many papers on the subject on the web, if you're=20 interested. Dan =20 --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFH3tEyixf5fBYiFmoRAscxAJ9GhLxD7i4Ip+akLlTrYuPD5AI4kwCdHnZN kF8jNLEjwYuthPD9qpq3bQw= =0o3L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--
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