Does softupdate help squid ?

[Pollywog]

On Monday 17 March 2008 19:17:58 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm setting up a squid cache (3.0.2) machine FreeBSD 7.0 based and I
> > wonder if softupdates could help (make it faster ) or not the cache
> > partition ?
>
> i would say it's absolutely needed.
>
> anyway - any reason to not use soft updates on every filesystem?

What exactly is a soft update?