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

[Aleksandr A.Babaylov]

Matt Dillon writes:
> :Matt Dillon wrote:
> :>     Yes.  In general softupdates will make the entire filesystem safer.
> :Does it make sense to use softupdates on file systems like / and
> :/usr which have little file creation/removal?
>     I have had softupdates turned on for all of my mount points for over
>     a year.
> 
>     For /, the only issue is that if you have too small a root parition a
>     'make installworld' may run the filesystem out of space faster then
>     softupdates can free the blocks.  My root partition is always 128M
>     for that reason (and also so I can throw a few kernel.debug images in
>     there).
> 
>     My recommendation is to turn softupdates on for everything you have,
>     and for us to make it a newfs default as well.  At least in -stable.
You use softupdates turned on for all of your ufs.
Understand.
What is the reason to use softupdates for file system
with only atime updates on it?

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