UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?

[Damien Hull]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:31 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> John Conover wrote:
> > Is UFS2 with soft updates the most robust file system in freebsd?
> 
> No, although UFS2 with softupdates is robust enough for production use.
> 
> If you make the filesystem writes syncronous and disable write caching on the 
> hard drive, you will improve the robustness at significant cost to performance.
> 

Are you saying that the UFS2 file system sucks? If so what options does
one have? 

I've read that softupdates should be turned on. How much of a
performance loss will I see if I turn softupates off?


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Damien Hull <dhull at digitaloverload.net>