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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:42:00 +0100
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com>
Cc:        Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sofupdates - which partitions make sense
Message-ID:  <19990319164200.A18684@internal>
In-Reply-To: <36EF1F9E.C77E258C@borg.com>; from Mark S. Reichman on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:21:02PM -0500
References:  <36E2BAEE.9687F415@borg.com> <87iuc1ixv1.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> <36EF1F9E.C77E258C@borg.com>

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On Tue, 16-Mar-1999 at 22:21:02 -0500, Mark S. Reichman wrote:
> Larry Baird replied today and suggested to reboot and:
> 
> boot -s
> tunefs -e enable /dev/rwd0s2a

I do it this way and it always worked.


> Doing this worked as far as I can tell.  When I do a 
> mount command I get this output.
> 
> mark@slugo:/home/mark:>mount
> /dev/wd0s2a on / (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 3 async 100)
> /dev/wd0s2e on /var (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 83 async 176)
> /dev/wd0s2f on /usr (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 83 async 519)
> procfs on /proc (local)
> /dev/wd0s1 on /dos/c (local)
> /dev/wd1s1 on /dos/d (local) 
> 
> But when I boot it only shows the following in the dmesg.
> These represent /var and /usr partitions. They have been there all along.
> So, I guess it worked.  I dont know why I dont get a 
> third line below for the third soft-update enabled 
> partition?  Unless you only ever get two?
> 
> da0: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 96C)
> changing root device to wd0s2a
> ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
> ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates  

Same here. A while ago, I posted a question concerning this as well but
never got a reply. I always get n-1 of the above messages when n is the
number of softupdated filesystems including /. But according to the speed
when rm -rf'ing something on /, I assume they are really enabled :-)

	-Andre


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