Subject: Re: SOftdep or no on CompactFlash?
To: None <bsieker@freenet.de>
From: M. Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 05/02/2002 14:12:05
In message: <20020502220821.A22088@localhost>
            Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de> writes:
: For CF cards the total number of writes per cell is more of an issue,
: I think. In this respect, is Softdep good or bad for filesystems on
: CF-Cards?

If I had enough memory, I'd enable soft-updates.  They have the effect
of combining writes to the disk, which is a net positive, generally,
for flash cards.

Warner