Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Jesse Guardiani writes: > >> Then why doesn't sysinstall enable soft updates on the root FS by >> default? > > Because the root is not often written, and any data loss on the root is > likely to have more negative effects than on other directories (often it > would be something like a kernel rebuild). So sysinstall turns it off by > default for the root. But you can turn it on if you want to. > >> I don't. It hasn't worked well in the past. > > Soft updates has been improved in recent releases. It is now designed > to physically write data back to the disk in a way that keeps the > directory coherent (if not necessarily up to date) at all times.
How recent are we talking about? I'm about to try softupdates on a giant root partition simply because everyone keeps telling me that it should work fine. My data is currently backed up, so I have nothing to lose. And I can test your theories. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"