From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 19:33:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hq.newdream.net (mail.hq.newdream.net [216.246.35.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D08D37B416 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from zugzug.hq.newdream.net (zugzug.hq.newdream.net [127.0.0.1]) by ravscan.zugzug.hq.newdream.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D689F3B398 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:33:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.hq.newdream.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id A18BE3B397; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:33:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:33:41 -0800 From: Dairy Wall Limey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: soft-updates Message-ID: <20011128193341.A8875@hq.newdream.net> Mail-Followup-To: Dairy Wall Limey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: New Dream Network Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm running freebsd 4.4 stable on two i386 boxes (my home and work workstations). i setup soft updates on the /usr and /var partitions on both, but while typing 'mount' shows the 'soft-updates' option, it doesn't show syncronous vs asyncronous writes. is this normal? i haven't really noticed an appreciable difference in performance when doing stuff with heavy disk io either. aura# mount /dev/ad1s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad1s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad1s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) am i doing something wrong? i followed the instructions on a couple of sites online such as: http://info.unix-fu.org/FreeBSD/Soft-Updates-(mini)HOWTO - shut down machine, booted single user, did: tunefs -n /partition on all the partitions i wanted soft-updates for, and then rebooted. please cc me on reply (Mail-Followup-To should be set correctly), as i'm not on the list anymore. aura# strings /sbin/mount |grep FreeBSD |grep mount $FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/mount.c,v 1.39.2.3 2001/08/01 08:26:23 obrien Exp $ $FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/mount_ufs.c,v 1.16.2.3 2001/08/01 08:27:29 obrien Exp $ $FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/getmntopts.c,v 1.9 1999/10/09 11:54:06 phk Exp $ $FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/vfslist.c,v 1.4 1999/08/28 00:13:27 peter Exp $ -william yardley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message