From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 22 6:33:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1555C37B57D for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 06:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07234; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:33:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA01832; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:33:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:33:31 -0400 (EDT) To: "brian j. peterson" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates on alpha? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14674.5456.451303.808293@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org brian j. peterson writes: > before i go hosing my filesystem, is softupdate support equal on alpha and > x86 at this point? > > and/or anything special i should to know about softupdates on alpha? > > the docs i've come across don't mentnion anything alpha-specific, but i > wanted to check here first. (hopefully someone listening has had some > experience with the combo.) There are no alpha-specific problems at all. I've been running FreeBSD/alpha w/softupdates enabled on 20+ machines for over a year. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message