[FreeBSD] Softupdate

[Gabor Dolla]

I also use it on one machine for about 3 months without any problem

Gabor


On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> We are using it in production on 3.2 machines.
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> julian
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> On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Szabolcs Szigeti wrote:
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> > On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
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> > > I've seen these figure (in fact I did some of these tests)
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> > > 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).
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> > 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.
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