From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 8 5:11:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172D615939 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 05:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA17948; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:08:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:08:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: Jesper Skriver Cc: jfesler@gigo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How stable is soft updates? In-Reply-To: <19990408092423.C5160@skriver.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Jesper Skriver wrote: : On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:43:06PM -0700, jfesler@gigo.com wrote: : > Some stuff I didn't see answers for.. : > 1: how stable is it :-) : Dead stable, at least to my experience, I've been running it for months : on very busy boxes ... I had serious problems with some underpowered systems earlier this year. However, I'm running a week-old 3.1-STABLE now, and it's been running softupdates for a few days with no more problems. I finally can't break it, no matter how I thrash the disk. YMMV, though. : > 2: If I somehow manage to boot from a kernel lacking soft updates, : > will the partition still be mountable (ie, sans soft updates)? : Don't know. I imagine it would be, since the softupdates flag is just that -- a flag -- tha t can be ignored. fsck treats softupdates-enabled disks differently but I think that's more of an issue with softupdates-induced problems needing different fixes. : > 3: How do we tunefs "/" ? : Just do it, and then turn the box off ... next time you boot it's ok. I always did it like this: reboot -s tunefs -n enable / tunefs -n enable /usr (and any other partitions) exit then when the system continued, it was enabled. Similar procedure for turning it off; just substitute "disable" for "enable" :) Matt Behrens Owner/Administrator, zigg.com Chief Engineer, Nameless IRC Network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message