Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Maxime Henrion]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Black writes:
> >Matt Dillon wrote:
> >
> >It seems to me that you're saying that softupdates is now the
> >recommended way to go -- so why does 4.2-Release still have the
> >dire warnings in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates?  Is that file
> >obsolete, or do the warnings still apply?
> 
> I think that file is obsolete by now.
> 
> I also think we should make newfs turn softupdates on by default in
> -current.

What do you think of what NetBSD implemented ? softupdates is now enabled via
a mount option. This seems cleaner than the tunefs -n enable thing.

Maxime
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