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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:41:59 -0500
From:      Ted Sikora <tsikora@home.com>
To:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SOFTUPDATES
Message-ID:  <385FD807.72FC177D@home.com>
References:  <385EFAEF.5F286795@home.com> <19991221112336.A22081@home.com>

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Jerry Gardner wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:58:39PM -0500, Ted Sikora wrote:
> > Is anyone running the SOFTUPDATES option with Stable? I just enabled it
> > and was wondering if there are any issues I should be aware of
> > performance wise. Any problems? I enabled it for the /usr
> > filesystem. Any reason why / is not specifically recommended?
> 
> Ted,
> 
> I have been using softupdates with -STABLE now for quite some time
> with absolutely no problems.
> 
> There have been problems reported with the softupdates code if the
> filesystem is full, or close to full. Kirk McKusick is working on the
> problem, but if you don't run with full filesystems, you will be OK.
> 

Thanks guys you helped tremendously. There's no reason not to use it
now. We'll get that penquin yet. That's my only complaint really ...the
slow filesystem but again data security is more
enticing. So from what I read softupdates on /tmp will also speed things
up quite a bit and / is not really necassary. Problem is my
/tmp is on / so in the future it may be wise to make a /tmp directory.
How about linking /tmp to /usr or /var for my current setup?

Regards, 
--
Ted Sikora
Jtl Development Group 
tsikora@powerusersbbs.com
http://powerusersbbs.com


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