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From: Martin (martinmediax.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 19:14:03 CST

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    Thierry Deval wrote:

    > Yup, softupdates really speeds the disk accesses when doing such things as compiling, cvs updating, database operations or huge file moves, especially when lots of write are involved.
    > But beware of not being caught by a crash at that time (and it happens quite easily on sustained writes), in that case, on reboot, you will have a long fsck stage and will loose almost all the files supposed to have been written !!!

    I have done some nice sustained writes on both 2.6 and 2.8 with
    softupdates turned on. I haven't been losing data. Is this more likely
    on some architectures than others?