On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me that Stephen McKay remarked > > I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete > behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't > gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I recommend > people leave root alone.
No, don't leave it alone, make it even SLOWER than usual! /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 114 async 3850) Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fulle...@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
