Ted Unangst wrote:
since everybody should be
using softupdates, this shouldn't be much of a real problem.
I seem to remember a discussion some time ago concerning whether to use
softdep or not, and I got the impression that softupdates was not
necessarily always the best thing. In the end I think it was some
statement of adding unneccesary complexity that made me disable
softupdates for most of my partitions.
Two issues, AFAICR (cluebats are welcome), are/were:
- Increased delay between write(2) and storing on disk.
- Temporary extra use of disk space (problem for small partitions?)
Furthermore, is there any point in using softdeps for partitions like /,
/usr/local etc, whith are seldom written to?
Has softupdates improved and/or are those statements still somewhat
valid? Are there some specific applications where softupdates should not
be used?
Curiously
/Alexander
