Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:26:53 -0300 From: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks? Message-ID: <200603061026.53599.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20060306114127.GG29207@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <44077E79.2080708@rogers.com> <17417.618.690291.106171@satchel.alerce.com> <20060306114127.GG29207@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On Monday 06 March 2006 08:41, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > AFAIK soft-updates don't put your root partition at risk _directly_. > You might run into problems, _if_ your root partition is rather > small, during installworld/installkernel. This is due to the > delayed freeing of data blocks when files are erased. > So your root partition might fill up even if there should be > plenty of space. > I believe that softupdates is usefull only for partitions where writing=20 ocurres what normally is not the case on the root partition > This has _never_ happened to me, though. My root partitions are all > at least 128 M in size and /var is _always_ separate and /tmp is > a symlink to /var/tmp. > this is a good idea but not default, standard install suggest a small /tmp= =20 partition I guess what probably is even better if you expect lots of r/w on= =20 it > I did configure quite a few servers with soft-updates on all > partitions, when soft-updates were rather new and I was > excited about the performance gain and didn't know about > the possible problems with / - as I said, I never had a > single problem with that setup. softupdate except for / is the default I guess so you do not need to enable= it Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
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