From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 20:16:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E3737B405 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:16:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dOBR-0002mR-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 04:16:45 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 2712F13040 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:16:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 685D422594; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:16:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:16:44 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enabling soft-updates for / Message-ID: <20020220041644.GA11089@raggedclown.net> References: <20020219215644.GA2017@ladha.com> <20020220090151.S494@k7.mavetju.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020220090151.S494@k7.mavetju.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:01:51AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:56:44PM -0800, Hanif Ladha wrote: > > I would like to enable soft-updates for /. However man tunefs states > > that the filesystem needs to be unmounted. So the goofy question is how > > do I umount / and run tunefs -n enable /. Or have missed the boat > > completely. > > Boot in single-user mode, login and do the tunefs-command. > Some people say you shouldn't do softupdates on /, some people say > it is an acceptable risk. See previous discussions to find out what > you think about it. I followed that discussion fairly closely, and read stuff here and there. I started off agnostic on the subject and remain so. There does not seem to be a right or wrong answer, more of a judgement on a risk -- hard to say how real that risk is. Due to a bug somewhere in the dri/agp support stuff for Matrox cards (a PR has been submitted) starting X11 crashes my system, so I have seen a lot of fsck repairs happening on / the last few days. Would the situation have been more serious if I had soft-updates on / enabled or not ? (I don't). This one seems to fall into the "how big should swap be" category. There is no right answer .. :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message