From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 16:56:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82680106564A for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E36C8FC12 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oALGu9iP083532 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:56:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4CE94F25.3000609@tundraware.com> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:56:05 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:56:09 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: oALGu9iP083532 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: More On Samba And Softupdates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:56:17 -0000 The other day I mentioned I had a problem with a Samba-shared drive that was just installed blowing up. When I rebuilt it, I forgot to enable softupdates but the drive seems to be working flawlessly. I understand it is possible to do this after-the-fact with tunefs. Some questions: Do I have to unmount the drive to do it? What benefit will I get if I turn on softupdates? This drive is being used as a backup drive for all the workstations on this particular network, and "reliable" is much more important than " slightly faster". -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/