I've sent a similar message for discussion to the
freebsd-questions@ mailing list. As OpenBSD has a focus on
security I think it can be interesting here too.
As metadata is updated synchronously in the classical (without
softupdates) FFS, can we have the following case?
Let's suppose block A cont
> I've been trying to find out whether to enable soft updates or not, and
> I have not really seen any reason not to, other than that it is not
> enabled by default.
Pros:
* Improved performance
* Faster recovery latency after a crash
* Can handle a security problem that can occur (AFAIK) in ba
> > * Improved performance
> there are known scenarios where it does degrades performance.
I meant in the general case.
> > * Faster recovery latency after a crash
> this is just not true at all.
Effectively, background fsck isn't implemented yet under OpenBSD
and NetBSD (FreeBSD has this featur
> > > > * Improved performance
> > > there are known scenarios where it does degrades performance.
> > I meant in the general case.
> me too
Do you refer to systems with low memory (or at least the need to
have the kernel not to occupy more memory than a minimum), for
example? If not, some example
> > Do you refer to systems with low memory (or at least the need to
> > have the kernel not to occupy more memory than a minimum), for
> > example? If not, some example would be really appreciated to get
> > a deeper understanding of the technology.
>
> you can start by reading some on the subjec
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