From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 17:44:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F543DE2 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwlink.com (ip97.r10.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.174.97]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01647; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:43:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38A216C9.5A2E6719@nwlink.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:39:21 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Hess Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and async References: <38A2103E.815B0C4C@nwlink.com> <0bdb01bf7365$2c465080$1e80000a@avantgo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.] So softupdates does the same thing as 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. I have 100MB /, 40MB /var, 256MB swap, and the rest is /usr. Is softupdates generally only done for /usr? -- R Joseph Wright *I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message