From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 19:23:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503A114A28 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:23:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from williamsl@Home.Com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991222032339.DHAJ17996.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:23:39 -0800 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:22:48 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Ben WIlliams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <16932.991221@Home.Com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Tom Subject: Re[4]: SOFTUPDATES In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tuesday, December 21, 1999 So that's a "Yes you need [br]oot & fixit"? (I actually tried it with wd0s1a too and got the same effect.) I'll just take my disks next time I go up to see the router/webserver/mailserver(pop&smtp)/ pain-in-my-ass box and be done with it. Thanks for the input. Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 10:02:02 PM, you wrote: T> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ben WIlliams wrote: >> How far back is "used to"? I have a 3.2-RELEASE box that I tried >> booting into single-user mode both via `shutdown now` and 'boot -s' >> and couldn't get it to enable soft updates on /. When I did >> `shutdown now` it would complete the `tunefs -n enable rwd0s1a` but T> Probably because the r* superblocks are kept in memory, and don't modify T> the ondisk superblock. T> I think tunefs needs some more IQ in what devices it modifies. tunefs T> is fine to use with r* devices if you just want to see what the current T> settings are. I think tunefs should refuse to use the raw device for T> updating parameters, and always use the raw device to display parameters T> (so that -p works when the file system is mounted). T> Tom -- Ben mailto:williamsl@Home.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message