From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 17:50:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7E837B71C; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: from hornet.unixfreak.org (hornet [63.198.170.140]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2556B3E23; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:50:38 -0800 (PST) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall option for softupdates In-Reply-To: <20010312174353.A33031@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:43:53 -0800" Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:50:37 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010313015038.2556B3E23@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" writes: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:12:13PM -0800, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > There's always the 'nosoftdep' mount option. It's also possible to > > enable it by default on everything except the root filesystem, but > > that's a [minor] POLA violation. > > I fail to see what is wrong with defaulting to `off'. Right now, nothing. What mckusick was saying was that he didn't want to have a "field day" where everyone would have to put "softdep" for their filesystems in /etc/fstab. Yes, this isn't happening now since ps's patches are backwards-compatible, but unless you always want to keep that backwards-compatibility (which isn't bad, IMO), everyone will eventually have to do it. I've no opinion either way; I'm simply restating what I saw mckusick agree to. Regards Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message