On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:00:37AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Ted Sikora wrote:
>
> > Is anyone running the SOFTUPDATES option with Stable? I just enabled it
> > and was wondering if there are any issues I should be aware of
> > performance wise. Any problems? I enabled it for the /usr
> > filesystem. Any reason why / is not specifically recommended?
>
> One other data point.
>
> Softupdates can cause some interesting deadlocks when a disk fills up.
> Since /tmp is very susceptable to filling, you don't want softupdates set
> on the /tmp volume either (which is generally /).
Make that: 'which is generally, but really should not be, / '
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