Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Matt Dillon]

:
:Matt Dillon wrote:
:
:>     Yes.  In general softupdates will make the entire filesystem safer.
:
:Does it make sense to use softupdates on file systems like / and
:/usr which have little file creation/removal?
:
:Greg

    I have had softupdates turned on for all of my mount points for over
    a year.

    For /, the only issue is that if you have too small a root parition a
    'make installworld' may run the filesystem out of space faster then
    softupdates can free the blocks.  My root partition is always 128M
    for that reason (and also so I can throw a few kernel.debug images in
    there).

    My recommendation is to turn softupdates on for everything you have,
    and for us to make it a newfs default as well.  At least in -stable.

                                                -Matt



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