[FreeBSD] Softupdate

[Szabolcs Szigeti]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> I've seen these figure (in fact I did some of these tests)
> 
> The soft updates makes deletes 100 times faster on my machine, but the 
> disk-space is only actually freed over the next 30 to 45 seconds,
> So after the  'rm' you can watch it being freed by doing 'df'
> for a time. (the freeing of the removed blocks is done in background).


Yes, i'm more or less aware of this. What I'd like to know is wheter
softupdate is stable enough in 3.2 to use on important machines.

szabolcs