From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 9: 8:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amsmta02-svc.chello.nl (mail-out.chello.nl [213.46.240.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F7937B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:07:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sonic ([213.93.216.127]) by amsmta02-svc.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.10 201-232-116-110 license fc2c4e20c60bc99c8c8f9bb6725f4ded) with SMTP id <20010110170333.CZDN11254.amsmta02-svc@sonic>; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:03:33 +0100 Message-ID: <03be01c07b28$1420b510$0404a8c0@sonic> From: "Ron Klinkien" To: , "Lowell Gilbert" References: <000d01c07827$e86896c0$0304a8c0@smalweer.nl> <44vgrnmpi1.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Why is softupdates not enabled after newfs-ing during install? Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:09:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, fair enough... Maybe a good idea to ask the user when in Experienced/Custom installation mode if he/she want's to use SOFTUPDATES for the filesystems its going to newfs or not.. It's no big deal.. But I just noticed a few days after my installation, that I had to goto single user mode to tunefs my system... Ron. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: ; "Ron Klinkien" Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Why is softupdates not enabled after newfs-ing during install? > ron@zappa.demon.nl (Ron Klinkien) writes: > > > Since the copyright change of the softupdates code it's enabled by default > > in the GENERIC kernel, which is a good thing... > > > > But why is there no 'tunefs -n enable' command after newfs-ing ufs > > filesystem's during installation of FreeBSD? > > I assume that's because it would increase the memory requirements for > doing an install. We already have some problems with predicting > exactly how much memory is needed to install FreeBSD, and FreeBSD can > *run* in considerably less memory than is needed for installing a > recent release. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message