Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:57:11 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, julian@whistle.com, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Soft Updates are not a mount option Message-ID: <19980511195711.30170@mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <199805112306.QAA28973@flamingo.McKusick.COM>; from Kirk McKusick on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 04:06:44PM -0700 References: <19980511193645.56745@mcs.net> <199805112306.QAA28973@flamingo.McKusick.COM>
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On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 04:06:44PM -0700, Kirk McKusick wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:36:45 -0500 > From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> > To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM> > Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, julian@whistle.com, > Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, current@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Why Soft Updates are not a mount option > In-Reply-To: <199805112206.PAA28767@flamingo.McKusick.COM>; > from Kirk McKusick on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 03:06:41PM -0700 > > On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 03:06:41PM -0700, Kirk McKusick wrote: > > Soft Updates are set in the superblock with tunefs for several reasons: > > > > 1) This is an interim measure during the testing phase of soft updates. > > In the long run, they will always be used as the normal course of > > events. I do not want legacy mount options lying around. > > Uh, how do you do that with the current licensing system? (ie: not everyone > can play) > > ... > > I eventually plan to make the code freely redistributable. The current > licensing scheme is in place to give me time to sell the code to one or > more of the big Unix vendors. > > ~Kirk Ah, ok. Now if it were only stable enough to attempt to use in some of the places that it would REALLY help things (like our INN news machine). -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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