From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 18:05:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22556 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:05:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22512 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29747; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:05:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd029711; Sun Sep 27 18:05:22 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08374; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:05:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809280105.SAA08374@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Softupdates panics To: toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:05:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: eivind@yes.no, tlambert@primenet.com, street@iname.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809272257.RAA28575@home.dragondata.com> from "Kevin Day" at Sep 27, 98 05:57:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > The dependencies for "noatime" are not switchable, and by enabling > > > it, you are breaking the dependency graph into seperate pieces! > > > > > > The bug here is that it didn't ignore your request for "noatime". > > > > Return error. noatime request a particular behaviour for the mount; > > ignoring that request on the assumption that people only do it for > > speed is IMO totally bogus. > > I've gotta agree here - softupdates looked good for my palmtop that uses > flash - noatime is essentially required for flash media. :) Why? > But is that what terry was saying? :) I was saying that you should ignore the flag. Elvind corrected me (I agree with him) that it's not enough to ignore it, you need to actually barf on the flag. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message