From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 30 10:12:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from messiah.megadeb.org (cpe.atm0-0-0-218131.arcnxx5.customer.tele.dk [62.242.79.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBC537B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chopra@runbox.com) Received: (from chopra@localhost) by messiah.megadeb.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4UHDdV37045 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 30 May 2001 19:13:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from chopra) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:12:24 +0200 From: Munish Chopra To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...)) Message-ID: <20010530191224.J15580@messiah.megadeb.org> Mail-Followup-To: 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 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. Same thing happened to me. I figured it was in the kernel, so it was 'on'. > 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. It would be nice if there was a boot message saying 'Soft Updates On/Off'. Would have helped me, at least (no, I haven't mounted from the command line lately). BTW, I haven't turned on soft updates on the root partition, though I know it's possible. Is there any reason to do so (a compelling one), or am I maybe even better off leaving that alone? -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message