On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Karl Denninger wrote:
1. Is it REALLY safer to have the root filesystem run WITHOUT softupdates? (As was previous default practice)
The FAQ has an entry which has been there for a while. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES
2. In order of risk of data loss what are the risks and options for SU, SU+J and neither? Neither exposes you to huge time delays on a post-crash boot due to the fsck requirement, but SU can expose you to a failed background fsck and thus get you the huge time delay too. Since SU+J eliminates this the only argument for NOT using it is that it's more dangerous to your data than running without either or with SU alone. Is this true?
AFAIK, they should be the same as far as filesystem integrity, it's just that SU+J cuts down the time spent waiting for fsck.
3. Is there intent to fix dump -L with SU+J?
Yes, and there have been commits in the last few months. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/ufs/ufs/inode.h?sortby=date&view=log
If so, is there a projection on when?
Sorry, no idea. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
