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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:39:08 +0200
From:      "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        "Stephen McKay" <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Sv: softupdates on root partition, no floppy 
Message-ID:  <012801bed21e$bafdce40$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
References:  <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com> <199907190725.RAA13642@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>

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From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>

> On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> >:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I
have to
> >:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this
machine?
> >
> >    If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you
should
> >    be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot.
>
> I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete
> behaviour.  I kept filling up root while updating kernels.  It doesn't
> gain you much on little used file systems anyway.  So, I recommend
> people leave root alone.
>

Well, this disk is 4G and has only one partition, containing both / and
/usr, so I think I may benefit from softupdates.

Leif




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