From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 22 23:06:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25180 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:06:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (lal-99-91.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.99.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25175 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA78503; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:06:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:06:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: Joe McGuckin cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES code in 3.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199901230659.WAA13353@monk.via.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joe McGuckin wrote: > Is this code included, or must it be patched in? Because of licensing issues, you have to enable it yourself. See the instructions in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates for how to do this. > Is softupdates enabled by default or do I have to use a special > mount flag? Neither. :) Once you have a softupdates kernel, you use "tunefs -n enable" on the unmounted filesystem to enable softupdates. (You only have to do this once.) -- Brian Buchanan brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org daemon(n): 1. an attendant power or spirit : GENIUS 2. the cute little mascot of the FreeBSD operating system To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message