Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 05:20:35 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <200102071320.f17DKZt59823@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <1192.981551707@critter>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200102071312.f17DCHt59672@mobile.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:
> >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> In message <20010207111952.B484@nebula.cybercable.fr>, Maxime Henrion writ
es:
> >>
> >>
> >> >What do you think of what NetBSD implemented ? softupdates is now enabled
vi
> > a
> >> >a mount option. This seems cleaner than the tunefs -n enable thing.
> >>
> >> I have never understood why it was a tunefs thing...
> >
> >So that fsck(8) can see what mode the FS *was* mounted in last time. That
> >bears no relationship to fstab or the current options.
>
> Right, so if mounting in softupdates mode updates the superblock to
> set the softupdates flag, why wouldn't that work ?
It would work fine, but Kirk told me not to bother submitting patches
because he had something else in mind (or at least, that's the way I
interpreted the mail).
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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