From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 11 17:57:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29453 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 17:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29446 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 17:57:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (karl@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id TAA14814; Mon, 11 May 1998 19:57:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) id TAA06475; Mon, 11 May 1998 19:57:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980511195711.30170@mcs.net> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:57:11 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: Kirk McKusick Cc: Ollivier Robert , julian@whistle.com, Luoqi Chen , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Soft Updates are not a mount option References: <19980511193645.56745@mcs.net> <199805112306.QAA28973@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199805112306.QAA28973@flamingo.McKusick.COM>; from Kirk McKusick on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 04:06:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To: Kirk McKusick > Cc: Ollivier Robert , julian@whistle.com, > Luoqi Chen , 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