From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 19 7:42:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B9A155B3 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22782 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:42:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14275 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:41:59 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15782 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:42:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:42:00 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: "Mark S. Reichman" Cc: Eric Jacoboni , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sofupdates - which partitions make sense Message-ID: <19990319164200.A18684@internal> References: <36E2BAEE.9687F415@borg.com> <87iuc1ixv1.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> <36EF1F9E.C77E258C@borg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <36EF1F9E.C77E258C@borg.com>; from Mark S. Reichman on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:21:02PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message