Thank you, you convinced me that it's not a good idea :) 2006/3/21, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bruno Carnazzi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Why not use soft update as a default for created file system on > > install ? It seems to be a good practice, no ? > > Well...assuming you: > * Have some extra RAM to spare. > * Don't mind added complexity > * aren't running on a Sun4c > > sure, soft updates are a fine idea for most people to use on most of > their systems. > > However, no one's system is broke because of not having softdeps on. No > one's system will crash because of no softdeps. > > Softdeps is an added complexity. You don't add complexity and get a > more solid result. > > IF you always want softdeps on the systems you work with, it is two > lines of shell script in a siteXX.tgz file (or less if you know what you > are doing, or more if you know of some edge cases I didn't think of). > However, I don't think it will be defaulting to "on" anytime in the next > release (and probably not the one after that). :) > > Nick.
