Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:57:00 -0900 From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust? Message-ID: <1103781420.16972.17.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> In-Reply-To: <41C8DC87.5080207@mac.com> References: <20041221104508.1002.qmail@rahul.net> <41C8DC87.5080207@mac.com>
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On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:31 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > John Conover wrote: > > Is UFS2 with soft updates the most robust file system in freebsd? > > No, although UFS2 with softupdates is robust enough for production use. > > If you make the filesystem writes syncronous and disable write caching on the > hard drive, you will improve the robustness at significant cost to performance. > Are you saying that the UFS2 file system sucks? If so what options does one have? I've read that softupdates should be turned on. How much of a performance loss will I see if I turn softupates off? -- Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
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