On Monday 06 March 2006 08:41, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > AFAIK soft-updates don't put your root partition at risk _directly_. > You might run into problems, _if_ your root partition is rather > small, during installworld/installkernel. This is due to the > delayed freeing of data blocks when files are erased. > So your root partition might fill up even if there should be > plenty of space. >
I believe that softupdates is usefull only for partitions where writing ocurres what normally is not the case on the root partition > This has _never_ happened to me, though. My root partitions are all > at least 128 M in size and /var is _always_ separate and /tmp is > a symlink to /var/tmp. > this is a good idea but not default, standard install suggest a small /tmp partition I guess what probably is even better if you expect lots of r/w on it > I did configure quite a few servers with soft-updates on all > partitions, when soft-updates were rather new and I was > excited about the performance gain and didn't know about > the possible problems with / - as I said, I never had a > single problem with that setup. softupdate except for / is the default I guess so you do not need to enable it João A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
