From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 22 1:31:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bastard.co.uk (node16292.a2000.nl [24.132.98.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954AD37B56C; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 01:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@bastard.co.uk) Received: from adrian by mail.bastard.co.uk with local (Exim 3.14 #1) id 1352Np-00081L-00; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:30:45 +0200 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:30:45 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd To: Anders Andersson Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.h ffs_softdep.c Message-ID: <20000622103045.F29036@zoe.bastard.co.uk> References: <200006220029.RAA97417@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000621223309.G47446@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <86g0q6gw5x.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000622080509.A4065@enterprise.sanyusan.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000622080509.A4065@enterprise.sanyusan.se>; from anders@sanyusan.se on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:05:09AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [shifting conversation to -current .. ] On Thu, Jun 22, 2000, Anders Andersson wrote: > on Tor, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:46:34pm +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote: > > > > Yes, it has been working quite stably here too. Besides, one must do > > a "tunefs -n enable" for every partition that he or she wants to do > > softupdates anyway, so just adding the support for softupdates to the > > GENERIC kernel won't hurt anyone who don't want to turn that feature > > on by default, except a little code increase. > > Please take a look at what NetBSD just recently did: > http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#softdepsmount > > These changes disables the whole 'tunefs' process, and let you control > softupdates state with mount, (-o softdep). So all you have to do is to > tune your /etc/fstab to enable softupdates. I think this will make it > more easy to enable SOFTUPDATES by default. I like this. Would anyone object if this was brought over from NetBSD ? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message