From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 17:39:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0AD5424A for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.9.3/ignatz) with ESMTP id RAA55149; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:38:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:38:13 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Scott Hess Cc: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and async In-Reply-To: <0bdb01bf7365$2c465080$1e80000a@avantgo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tunefs in single user mode can (and does, i believe) allow you to set the bit while the FS is mounted. this allows you to set up "/" with softupdates. -- jan On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Scott Hess wrote: > "R Joseph Wright" wrote: > > Is it okay to have both on the same filesystem? > > No, you cannot run both on the same filesystem. [Aside: what would be the > point? async+softupdates==async.] > > > And, how do I go about > > enabling softupdates on my / partition? > > Since softupdates is enabled via tunefs, your best bet is to drop the disk > in another system and tunefs it from there. OTOH, if you've followed the > various partitioning recommendations, your / filesystem is small and > essentially read-only, so softupdates won't do squat for it. > > Later, > scott > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message