Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:24:47 +0000 From: Burhan Nazir <burhan@blueyonder.co.uk> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates on root in 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020305152447.GA25206@swansea.cableinet.net> In-Reply-To: <200203051451.HAA04559@lariat.org> References: <200203051451.HAA04559@lariat.org>
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Softupdates will not write any data immediatly to the disk. I believe it is about 30 seconds b4 any data actually gets wriiten. This enhances disk write speed for certain types of operations. However, there is a small risk of data loss/coruption if the machine looses power b4 any data was written. For that reason, ppl believe that it is not a good idea to have softupdates on the system critical root partition Brett Glass wrote: >Just noticed that the default, in 4.5-RELEASE, is to install >softupdates on all partitions EXCEPT root. Is this an oversight, >or is there a reason why this is the default setting? > >--Brett Glass > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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