On 1999-Oct-06 11:33:51 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
>> On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> >I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used
>> >an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize
>> >a system worries me greatly.
>>
>> What do you mean by `destabilize'?
...
> softupdates can crash the system when this
>happens, not a mere application, but the entire system can lock up.
I don't recall this coming up in this thread. Last I recall, that
bug was supposed to be fixed (and Kirk(?) wanted anyone who still
saw it to report it). Unfortunately, I can't find that thread in
the archives :-(.
>Which isn't an option unless you dedicate a partition for /tmp
>which is pretty wasteful imo.
I guess we disagree on this. My feeling is that write activity on
root should be minimised to minimise the risk that root will be
inconsistent following a crash. Secondly, there's a security
viewpoint that users should not have write access anywhere in the root
or /usr filesystems.
Peter
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