Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:16:59 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/34137: [PATCH] Kernel config chapter in handbook Message-ID: <200201212216.g0LMGx875621@pittgoth.com>
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>Number: 34137
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] Kernel config chapter in handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 21 14:20:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Release: FreeBSD 4.5
>Organization:
nope
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD localhost 4.5
>Description:
Handbook kernel configuration chapter is lacking some options,
this patch will add a paragraph that will add the softupdates option, along with
two man page refs, newfs(8) and tunefs(8).
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes
www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front
www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
*** chapter.sgml.old Mon Jan 21 14:05:44 2002
--- chapter.sgml Mon Jan 21 16:10:14 2002
***************
*** 601,606 ****
--- 601,613 ----
<para>This is the basic hard drive filesystem. Leave it in if you
boot from the hard disk.</para>
+ <programlisting>options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support</programlisting>
+
+ <para>This option enables soft updates in the kernel, this will speed up write access on most
+ filesystems considerably, but they are not enabled by default. You will
+ need to enable them manually with the &man.tunefs.8; command for current filesystems,
+ or &man.newfs.8; to enable them on new filesystems.</para>
+
<programlisting>options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories</programlisting>
<para>This option includes some code to speed up disk operations on large
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