> On the other hand, freebsd seems to use softdeps by default on all
> filesystems at install time. And yet there doesn't seem to be much talk

Except the root / file system. FreeBSD sysinstall doesn't use softupdates
for / by default. At first because of reliability concerns (if I remember
correctly), but now because softupdates benefit of faster write access
doesn't make much sense on a filesystem that is rarely written too (since
sysinstall creates /tmp and /var and home on separate partitions).


 Jeremy C. Reed

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