Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:54:52 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? Message-ID: <20020819105452.A14530@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr>; from aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr on Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:28PM %2B0200 References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr>
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Hello, Soft updates does not work well with IDE controllers with write caching enabled; you can cause data loss. Most IDE controllers ship with write caching enabled. We won't, by default, ship systems which have an unacceptable risk of data loss. :-) On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Aurélien Nephtali wrote: > Hello, > > What is the reason that the mount point (by default, /) hasn't the flag > for soft-updates by default (during the installation), can I set it > without data lost ? > > -- Aurélien -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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