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The defaults for FreeBSD are / as UFS2 with no softupdates, see picture 2-19 in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html htt
by X-Istence 15y ago
The defaults for FreeBSD are / as UFS2 with no softupdates, see picture 2-19 in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/in... for an example.
- mhurron 15y agoIt has been a few months since I had to administer a FreeBSD machine, but personally since at least FreeBSD 7 I have had softupdates on on /. The installer may still not have softupdates on, but the installer is very very conservative about defaults, and probably hasn't changed since, well ever. However, from the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFT... "9.4. Which partitions can safely use Soft Updates? I have heard that Soft Updates on / can cause problems. Short answer: you can usually use Soft Updates safely on all partitions. Long answer: There used to be some concern over using Soft Updates on the root partition. ..."