From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 21: 6:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4CC37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4087243F93 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 61998 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2003 05:06:46 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Feb 2003 05:06:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3E4B27E6.6010501@tenebras.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:06:46 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no JFS? References: <3E4A5B77.5080103@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A863E.2030801@potentialtech.com> <3E4A8EF5.1070308@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A9712.8030609@potentialtech.com> <3E4AA331.5040701@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4AA734.5040102@potentialtech.com> <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <20030212225631.GA10375@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <005801c2d2eb$aa5fae60$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3E4ADDDE.5040208@pantherdragon.org> <3E4B138F.26E32E75@mindspring.com> <3E4B2433.70301@pantherdragon.org> In-Reply-To: <3E4B2433.70301@pantherdragon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message