From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 10:47:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10759 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10753 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA17774; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdT17655; Mon Jan 11 17:20:19 1999 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:19:57 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: "D. Rock" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot single with new loader? In-Reply-To: <199901091436.PAA27357@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well theoretically being in read-only mode should be enough, as teh transition to read-write should only READ the superblock again and pick up the new flags.. That was not happenning at one stage, but I think that's what Luoqi's changes are about.. at one stage the superblock was getting written to a RO FS which is definitly wrong.. (and wiped out the Softupdates flags on the disk) julian On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, D. Rock wrote: > > You can't enable soft updates from single user; the disk has to be completely > > unmounted. Either boot from a floppy, and run it on the hard disk, or do > > what I did (being to lazy to make a floppy), and boot the machine; run > > tunefs on the live disk, type sync 5 times, and smack the power switch. > > Did I miss something. I always enabled soft updates on my root fs by booting > into single user mode, > tunefs -n enable /dev/r.... > Press reset. > > Daniel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message