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Rewrite description about Soft Updates.

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such as web servers, to cleanly push part of their functionality into
the operating system kernel, improving performance.</li>
<li><b>Soft Updates</b> allow improved file system performance
without sacrificing safety and reliability, by intelligently
analyzing, caching and rewriting or reordering disk meta-data
operations.</li>
<li><b>Soft Updates</b> allows improved file system
performance without sacrificing safety and reliability.
It analyzes meta-data filesystem operations to avoid having
to perform all of those operations synchronously.
Instead, it maintains internal state about pending meta-data
operations and uses this information to cache meta-data,
rewrite meta-data operations to combine subsequent
operations on the same files, and reorder meta-data
operations so that they may be processed more efficiently.</li>
<li><b>Support for IPsec and IPv6</b> allows improved security in
networks, and support for the next-generation Internet Protocol,