On 9/6/09 15:57, Dan Naumov wrote: >> UFS2+SoftUpdates works fine on properly configured UFS2 - and very fast. >> > Yes, UFS2+SoftUpdates is very fast, however, in the case of a power > loss or having to pull the plug on a locked up system, it has a > noticeably higher chance of leaving you with an unbootable system than > if you were using Linux with ext3/ext4 or Windows with NTFS. > > > Interestingly in my experience its been the opposite, I've lost a few ext3 filesystems though bad power, same for NTFS (NT4, less so with 200x) but as yet never for ufs2 (fsck has always fixed it.)
That said, there have been a few projects to update/replace/whatever sysinstall, look at the desktopBSD installer (bsdinstaller) and finstall. I'm not sure what the status of either of these 2 are though. Vince _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
