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Re: softupdates recommendation

From: Michael Erdely (mikeerdelynet.com)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 19:30:55 CDT


grep include /usr/src/sys/arch/`uname -m`/conf/GENERIC
grep FFS_SOFTUPDATES /usr/src/sys/conf/GENERIC

-ME

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-miscopenbsd.org [mailto:owner-miscopenbsd.org] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:22 PM
To: miscopenbsd.org
Subject: Re: softupdates recommendation

Marco Peereboom wrote:
> I use softupdates just about everywhere. Sure there are corner cases where
one
> can loose some data however I (usually) prefer the performace boost over
the
> potential to loose data. Keywords here are UPS, stability and easily
> recreated/restored data.

One last thing then; from the FAQ:

To use Soft Updates, your kernel must have
option FFS_SOFTUPDATES
compiled in, this is already in place on GENERIC.

I can't find any such reference to FFS_SOFTUPDATES in GENERIC; is it
just there, but not listed as an option?

DS