Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:05:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au, blk@skynet.be, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates and CCD (was: Vinum questions?) Message-ID: <19990317110500.L429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199903162236.OAA04354@bubble.didi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:36:15PM -0800 References: <19990316100252.Q429@lemis.com> <199903162236.OAA04354@bubble.didi.com>
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On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 14:36:15 -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > > * This doesn't work. You should be able to enable softupdates on the > * ccd, but enabling it on the components makes no difference at all. > > You shouldn't be able to do that at all, unless there's still an old > copy of a superblock that confuses tunefs or something. Yes, that seems reasonable. > * The fact that you can do it is a bug allowed by the fact that ccd > * requires a 4.2BSD type partition. > > This is irrelevant to this discussion -- ccd requires a partition with > a disklabel entry of type "4.2BSD". It does not require a 4.2BSD (or > whatever) filesystem to actually be in there. Correct. But if ccd required its own partition type, you wouldn't be able to run tunefs on the ccd partition. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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