From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 5 11:50:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B2E14D35 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA08558; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:50:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:50:23 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tmpfs .. ? In-Reply-To: <21237.944421456@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Normal > > filesystems with softupdates turned on make pretty good mail spools though > > OK, I've seen several mentions now of `softupdates', and I think that I > have a general (vague?) notion of what `softupdates' is all about, but > allow me to disaply my ignorance one more time and ask which man page > (or document) I should be looking at to learn all of the specifics > regarding `softupdates'. (I looked at `man tunefs' and I don't see > nuttin' there, so where exactly is/are `softupdates' documented?) See src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates, which tells you what you need to get them to work, and http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/CSE-TR-254-95/ David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message