Re: Enabling UFS soft updates / journalling

2013-06-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: The release notes for 9.0-RELEASE [3] seems to imply that UFS+SUJ became the default but I can't find evidence of the change happening in code. Note that when combined with UFS snapshots, UFS+SUJ has some problems, and on stable/9 after 9.0-rele

Re: Enabling UFS soft updates / journalling

2013-06-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 23/06/13 21:32, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > My biggest question is why upstream FreeBSD chose not to use this on the > root filesystem if it was safe enough for the others. If it was, for > example, a bootloader limitation it may not be relevant to us. For that matter I suspect GRUB cannot saf

Enabling UFS soft updates / journalling

2013-06-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, In an old thread, the use of UFS soft updates was discussed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2012/09/msg00011.html I'm wondering if we could consider UFS+S, UFS+SUJ or UFS+J as a default for new installs. I've only tried UFS+S myself. On media that is slow to write metadata changes, it e