Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Not really. A properly laid-out filesystem hierarchy will result in no > writes to / (except for installworld/kernel). That removes the problem > that journalling addresses, and is probably why softupdates is disabled > by default for /. For large, active filesystems, journalling would be a > big improvement when you had to run a foreground fsck.
Soft updates are disable on / by default because of the chicken and egg problem of runing tunefs on /. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
