From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 30 9:15:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B22A37B42C for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 09:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 82800 invoked by uid 1000); 30 May 2001 16:13:42 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:13:42 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Michael Adler Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...)) Message-ID: <20010530191342.G74837@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Adler , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200105250638.XAA06408@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> <200105251951.f4PJp1b42293@earth.backplane.com> <200105252225.f4PMPXI44229@earth.backplane.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010530104537.00b04950@vssad.hlo.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010530104537.00b04950@vssad.hlo.dec.com>; from Michael.Adler@compaq.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Michael Adler wrote: > Thank you for the tuning page! I and, I fear, others made the mistake of > assuming that because SOFTUPDATES is in the kernel that it is automatically > enabled for the disks. Nothing printed during boot leads me to believe > otherwise and no mention was made of checking the flag using tunefs in > /usr/src/UPDATING. My drives formatted with standard methods in the past > had soft updates disabled. > > Perhaps there should be a message somewhere prominent encouraging people to > check whether their drives really have soft updates enabled. It would also > be useful if something during boot showed whether a mount would be using > soft updates. You do realize, don't you, that just issuing a 'mount' command would show 'soft-updates' for the filesystems that have soft updates enabled? G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message