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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:06:46 -0800
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is there no JFS?
Message-ID:  <3E4B27E6.6010501@tenebras.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E4B2433.70301@pantherdragon.org>
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Darren Pilgrim wrote:

>> Soft updates are disable on / by default because of the chicken
>> and egg problem of runing tunefs on /.
> 
> 
> If that's the problem, then why doesn't sysinstall enable it by default 
> when partitioning for a new install?

You can certainly change the options in sysinstall to force Softupdates
on /

In general, there's little to be gained from it -- on most systems, / is
essentially a read-only filesystem, with very little metadata changed except
for atime.

BTW, IIRC you can certainly 'tunefs -n enable /' while in single-user mode.


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