From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 4:16: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (203-134-146-019.cust.pth.iprimus.net.au [203.134.146.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105E037B405 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:16:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.mbox.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0GQS00JDBXWFUZ@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:12:15 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GQSXXS01.QF6 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:13:04 +0800 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:13:04 +1100 From: BSD Freak Subject: FreeBSD 4.5 soft updates To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I notice the FreeBSD 4.5 release notes say that sysinstall will now enable soft updates on all files systems except the root. Why is that so? Is it a bad idea to have a root file system with soft updates? Is it just for compatibility reasons? I need to know because I am installing a system where I am using all the disk space and mounting it as / (except for swap space ofcourse)..... I know this is a bad idea for various reasons ..... but I have good reasons for doing this too.... So my question is basically should I enable soft updates on my system which uses the whole disk as the root? Many thanks..... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like a mobile office from only $29.95 per year? Visit http://www.mbox.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message