Re: [exim] FreeBSD ffs vs. ufs?

Avleen Vig wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:00:11PM +1000, Marcus Barczak wrote:
>
>>I was wondering if anyone had any positive or negative experience
>>with using ffs+soft updates with exim on a FreeBSD system? I
>>understand the risk of losing data in the event of a power failure
>>(soft updates not being written to disk immediately). I'm just
>>wondering if there are any other gotchas that aren't immediately
>>obvious.
>
>
> Appart from this you should be fine.
>

Softupdates are not a 'gotcha' in that circumstance, but an advantage.

We have been using ufs+softupdates since it was introduced - usually with SCSI
hardware RAID, atacontrol IDE raid (4.x), or gmirror (6.1), and have experienced
only positive results, *especially* w/r protecting us against data corruption
from unplanned power outages.

But you should research that on the freebsd.org site, not here.

Bill

BTW - 'ufs' is simply the latest incarnation of what was originally called 'ffs'