On Tuesday 18 March 2003 08:43 am, Christian von Kleist wrote:
>      Thanks for all the suggestions from everyone.  I wasn't using soft
> dependencies and turning it on will increase performance, but should
> I be using it?  I turned it on for my /storage and /software which
> are partitions on separate drives that I use for compilation of
> source and storage of the final product, respectively.  There's been
> enough speculation about softdep crashes to scare me out of using it
> on /usr, /home, etc....

While yeah, sure, it's always good to be prudent, I wouldn't be so afraid of 
softdeps.  I've been using them religiously while tracking -current on 3 
alphas, including one with RAID-5, and one with a QLogic 1040 <--> Promise 
UDMA 66.  I have them on every root, usr, var-- you name it.

I do regular builds of src and xsrc, including full tree copies betwixt 
devices every couple days.  I've never (god bless 'em) had a reason to turn 
softdeps off.  The speed far outweighs the risk, especially considering that 
the definition of 'risk' in this case is something far, far more stable in my 
experience than, say, ext2 in Linux or FAT in Windows.

Just stay clear of LFS.  ;^)

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Dave