Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:15:29 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> To: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> Cc: Aur?lien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <20020819151529.GA6952@nebula.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> <20020819151437.GA91706@peitho.fxp.org>
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--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > This is a more conservative approach (similiar to not using async > mounts by default unlike other OS's) due to the importance of the > data on the root partition. And, since there are normally very > few writes to the root partition, unlike /var and others, soft- > updates would not provide much of a performance boost anyways. >=20 My disk is an ATA66 and 'make install' during kernel compilation is very slow and the disk seems to suffer :p -- Aur=E9lien --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9YQuRDNsbHbt8ok8RAjtlAJ4oejwjAJhnoL+3fb1/mCOpI+/f6wCfUH/Q aZ2YmdlFOAJD2a3q0Jw1Cug= =C6o8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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