From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 9:42:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt050n71.san.rr.com (dt050n71.san.rr.com [204.210.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44245150B1 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt050n71.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA61602; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3819CE49.F4D2BC08@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:41:45 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Harris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring Soft Updates References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gene Harris wrote: > > With all the talk of soft updates this morning, I recompiled > my kernel per the docs in lint and ufs/ffs. All went well. > I rebooted to single user mode (not from shutdown). When I > execute tunefs -n enable /usr I get: > > tunefs: soft updates enabled > tunefs: /dev/rwd0s1f: reload: Invalid argument > > What is the meaning of the second line? Is it an error? > The system is operating correctly, but I do not have clue > about whether soft updates is running. FWIW, I saw the same message on a couple of my filesystems, but softupdates did get enabled, and I haven't had any problems with them. You can see for yourself by typing just, 'mount'. It should look like this: /dev/wd0s1f on /usr/src (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 2 async 2365) Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message