Contributed by jose on from the noticable-speedups dept.
"Just recently, Nick Holland realized that a lot of what he does with his systems could REALLY be improved by using Soft Updates. He doesn't know why he never did this before... and wanted to share this information in the openbsd-advocacy list. Here is the full url and subsequent discussions of his post: http://www.openbsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1337 "If you haven't had the chance to check soft updates out, you should consider it. They've become quite stable in recent releases.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
Seriously tho soft updates rock. Id like to see them enabled on everything except / and /var by the install...:)
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By Anonymous Coward () on
int this respect, I still think leaving it off by default is the right choice. The admin should consciously make the choice to increase the risk to his data, even though it is a small risk....