On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:00AM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > I have run with softupdates on for '/' on all my systems, for > a few years now. It has not caused me any problems that I > know of, but then the way I define my partitions is probably a > lot different than what most people do. > > If we thought that softupdates made it *significantly* more > likely that users would *lose* data, then we would not turn it > on for any partitions!
Anthony's probably confusing softupdates + write caching on modern ATA
disks; the last undermines some of softupdates' fundamental
assumptions (ie the drive lies about data being written to disk) such
that it is indeed more likely in the event of a powerfailure that data
is lost.
Then again, write caching on modern ATA disks without softupdates also
is not really safe; so the win of turning off just softupdates is not
that big.
--Stijn
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