Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:21:45 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Phan Quoc Hien <phanquochien@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> Subject: Re: Data loss when hard shutdown! Message-ID: <20101002142145.GA70541@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikL=wXPG2JnNdBX0AxXiGHCMyXDz0_sjsDOziTF@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=eib81J1zUT_HmPcXOBFiLDFmyA8Q-KZV5HikE@mail.gmail.com> <op.vjx6e4o08527sy@212-123-145-58.ip.telfort.nl> <AANLkTik53kP7K-EcHy=uO2QdAJe5r7MvJxmbsCQ_b0Ye@mail.gmail.com> <20101002132548.00002898@unknown> <AANLkTina-12oxTxaBgzeQqF7n4GroDd76hiMprky6_r=@mail.gmail.com> <op.vjx80ows8527sy@212-123-145-58.ip.telfort.nl> <AANLkTikL=wXPG2JnNdBX0AxXiGHCMyXDz0_sjsDOziTF@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:26:48PM +0700, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>wrote: > > > On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:49:50 +0200, Phan Quoc Hien <phanquochien@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Thank for your respond. I have checked my fstab file. I didn't see any > >> option about SoftUpdates for my / partition. > >> > > > > When you give the command 'mount' you will see several lines like this. > > > > /dev/ad8s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > > > Softupdates can be enabled/disabled with the command tunefs. See 'man > > tunefs'. > > > > When I run mount command. it shown: > $ mount > /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) I didn't see anyone mention this to you in the thread, but: By default in FreeBSD (during the installation phase), softupdates are explicitly **not** applied to the root filesystem. This is intentional, but the reason for it I do not know. I imagine it's justified though. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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