Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:55:37 +0300 (MSK) From: "Cyril A. Vechera" <cyril@newport.piter.net> To: cyril@newport.piter.net, doconnor@gsoft.com.au Cc: danh@gelatinous.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" Message-ID: <200012131155.OAA95968@newport.piter.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001213111259.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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> On 12-Dec-00 Cyril A. Vechera wrote: > > * danh@gelatinous.com <danh@gelatinous.com> [001211 11:50] wrote: > > > Hi, is there anything wrong with enabling softupdates > > > on my / partition? > > > > The total pure way is to mount / read-only with softupdating other > > file systems. > > One of the easiest ways is to edit /etc/rc and add the appropriate tunefs commands > before the file systems are mounted.. > > Works well :) Sorry, broken language. I meant that on server only safe way is mounting / read-only to keep out of unrecoverable file system errors and do not allow usual writes at all (mount -u -w / when it needed). Hold static compiled sshd somewhere in /sbin so we can login in after any crash (we assume, that read-only / is not affected) and do repairs. Cyril. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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