From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 9: 9:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apache.metrocom.ru (www.metrocom.ru [195.5.128.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549BD37B41A for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:09:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from apache.metrocom.ru (apache.metrocom.ru [195.5.128.150]) by apache.metrocom.ru (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g0UH9E7c004907 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:09:14 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:09:14 +0300 (MSK) From: Varshavchick Alexander To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5 In-Reply-To: <20020130135336.I97604-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Then the difference lays only in the fact that on 4.5 the softupdates flag can be turned on in the sysinstall procedure? Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:00:48 -0300 (ART) > From: Fernando Gleiser > To: Varshavchick Alexander > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5 > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > > > Hi people, > > > > So to make softupdates work, the partition should be reformatted under > > 4.5, which means that after an upgrade from an earlier FreeBSD version > > (without disk reformatting) the soft updates will not work, is it true? > > no, it is not true. Up to 4.4 you don't need to re create the file system > and I dont see why this should change. > > to enable soft updates on a file system, unmount it and run a > # tunefs -n enable > > > Fer > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message