Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 00:01:58 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates in default install on -CURRENT Message-ID: <p05101007b82f63a0b813@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011201232300.4004I-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011201232300.4004I-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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At 11:27 PM -0500 12/1/01, Robert Watson wrote: >I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't time to switch sysinstall to start >configuring softupdates "by default" for file systems at install-time. >We currently allow it to be selected, but don't enable it by default. >I would propose it be turned on by default for all non-root file >systems, or some other similar rule (file systems <64MB, ..). I expect it would be best to have it default 'off' for /, because the user can get into strange-seeming failures when installing a new kernel. I do like the idea of it being on for most other filesystems. I don't have much of an opinion as to whether it should also default to off for other "small" file systems. >[this change] not only addresses performance but improved reliability, >it seems to me that this would be a sensible change to introduce at some >useful breaking point, and 5.0 provides a good opportunity to do that. Given the benefits, it might even be reasonable for 4.5. Certainly it would be nice to do with 5.0. [whatever happened to softupdates becoming a mount-option, instead of something set in the partition via 'tunefs'? ] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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