From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 9:25:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDEC537B6F2 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA12716; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:25:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jesper Skriver , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft updates mount change (17 Jun) References: <200006272212.PAA36120@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> <20000628094841.D77839@skriver.dk> <20000628091509.V275@fw.wintelcom.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Jun 2000 18:25:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:15:09 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: > * Dag-Erling Smorgrav [000628 08:11] wrote: > > s/week/year/. This has been discussed many times, and while the > > current solution (fs flag) is not particularly elegant, it is the > > lesser evil. > IMO there's nothing wrong with mount doing what tunefs does, setting > the softdep bit before actually mounting it, changing it while > mounted would not be supported. If you use a filesystem marked for softupdates on a non-SU system, and have a crash, fsck will go nuts and spew gobs of "UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY" messages. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message