Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:11:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net, brian@worldcontrol.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft updates: OPTIONS Vs. TUNABLES, and a plan... Message-ID: <199802161411.HAA08937@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802152341.QAA08289@usr01.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 15, 98 11:41:43 pm
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> Not doing the hack is problematic; one wonders how a root FS can ever > be tuned after the system has been booted. > > Mounting read-only is *not* sufficient. This is because there exist > read dependencies for read-before-write operations. You can probably > get away with it, but you are flying by the seat of your pants if > you do so. Ugh. OK, here are "seat-of-your-pants" instructions: 1) Boot single user, with root mounted read-only 2) Tunefs soft updates on 3) *immediately* run the "reboot" program. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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