Backups with 9-STABLE -- Options?

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Karl Denninger wrote:

> 1. Is it REALLY safer to have the root filesystem run WITHOUT
> softupdates?  (As was previous default practice)

The FAQ has an entry which has been there for a while.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES

> 2. In order of risk of data loss what are the risks and options for SU,
> SU+J and neither?  Neither exposes you to huge time delays on a
> post-crash boot due to the fsck requirement, but SU can expose you to a
> failed background fsck and thus get you the huge time delay too.  Since
> SU+J eliminates this the only argument for NOT using it is that it's
> more dangerous to your data than running without either or with SU
> alone.  Is this true?

AFAIK, they should be the same as far as filesystem integrity, it's just 
that SU+J cuts down the time spent waiting for fsck.

> 3. Is there intent to fix dump -L with SU+J?

Yes, and there have been commits in the last few months.
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/ufs/ufs/inode.h?sortby=date&view=log

> If so, is there a projection on when?

Sorry, no idea.