Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 19:58:59 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Okay, -current should be conditionally safe to use Message-ID: <199803080059.TAA00326@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803080028.BAA03950@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Mar 8, 98 01:28:51 am"
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Mikael Karpberg said: > > We certainly don't have a UPS. > What exactly does turning on that sysctl mean? That we can get an > inconsistant state on the disk, like with mount option async, or that > writes are ACKed (or whatever you call it) directly, and then queued for > a normal write to the disk according to the disks mount options? > It is just like a normal write, violating NFS sematics, but will work just like a regular file write according to filesystem methods. > > And how is it better then SoftUpdates? Because it's not using beta-release > code, or are SoftUpdates a looser here for some other reason? > It isn't ready for production yet. SoftUpdates is better -async, but still not as data-secure as normal mounts. I suggest waiting until late March or early April. The code is probably late Alpha or near-Beta quality, with some known problems. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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