On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me
that Stephen McKay remarked
>
> I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete
> behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't
> gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I recommend
> people leave root alone.
No, don't leave it alone, make it even SLOWER than usual!
/dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 114 async 3850)
Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition?
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