It 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

It 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. ..."