From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 10:47:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F0937BE90 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA31799; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:47:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA29349; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:47:08 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft updates mount change (17 Jun) Message-ID: <20000628104708.B29089@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006272212.PAA36120@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> <20000628094841.D77839@skriver.dk> <20000628091509.V275@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000628102501.X275@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000628102501.X275@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:25:01AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: ..snip.. > > > 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. ..snip.. > > 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. ..snip.. > I'm not talking about anything particularly tricky here, it's just > tweaking the userland side of mount to possibly just spawn tunefs. Are you saying you want to go to a mount option for softupdates, or are you just saying what could be done in the abstract? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message