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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:26:49 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" <brentb@loa.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ffs and softupdates
Message-ID:  <20010929012649.A71720@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <007501c1483e$ff119880$21b4a8c0@pretorian>
References:  <007501c1483e$ff119880$21b4a8c0@pretorian>

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Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey) <brentb@loa.com> wrote:
> Im running 4.3 release of FBSD....everything is running great . But with as
> long as the box is running without reboots ....im wondering about the
> advantages or diadvantages of running FFS with softupdates...

You can find more about softupdates by reading the handbook (see the section
``Tuning Disks''):

	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/configtuning-disk.html

> Im currently running UFS. and is it possible to upfrade to FFS with
> softupdates ..from UFS without destroying the current file system.

Yep.  Very possible, indeed.  The handbook cited above explains a few things
about softupdates.  If you have the kernel sources installed, you can also
check out the following file:

	% more /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates

-giorgos

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