Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:51:12 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft updates mount change (17 Jun) Message-ID: <20000628105111.Z275@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000628104708.B29089@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:47:08AM -0700 References: <200006272212.PAA36120@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> <20000628094841.D77839@skriver.dk> <xzphfadyh9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000628091509.V275@fw.wintelcom.net> <xzpzoo5wz6l.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000628102501.X275@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000628104708.B29089@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> [000628 10:47] wrote: > 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? I'm trying to explain how it can be done in a simple way without compromising what we already do. However actually implementing it is somewhere very low on my TODO list right now. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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