From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 15:27:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from despam.spin.it (despam.spin.it [147.123.1.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AEE37B5CA for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 15:27:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from furio@spin.it) Received: from mail.spin.it (plus.spin.it [147.123.1.12]) by despam.spin.it (Postfix/beta-19990601/Spin-ext-16nov1999) with ESMTP id BA3733C097 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 00:27:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from furio@localhost) by mail.spin.it (8.9.3/8.9.3/spin-int-jan2000) id AAA11736 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2000 00:27:21 +0200 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:27:21 +0200 From: furio ercolessi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot start softupdates, why? Message-ID: <20000523002721.C10915@spin.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I am trying to enable softupdates on my /var partition, but I am having difficulties (I am a FreeBSD newbie migrating from Linux exactly to improve filesystem performance; please bear with me). I did "ln -s ../../contrib/softupdates/*.[ch] ." in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs. I put "options SOFTUPDATES" in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/. I make-installed the custom kernel. I rebooted, went single user, unmounted my /var partition and did # tunefs -n enable /dev/da0s1e tunefs: soft updates set # tunefs -p /dev/da0s1e tunefs: soft updates: (-n) enabled [...more output...] # mount /dev/da0s1e /var # mount [...] /dev/da0s1e on /var (ufs, local, writes: sync 2 async 0) Now I understand that at this point softupdates should appear in the list within (...). And this is not just a failure of mount to show it: I ran performance tests without seeing any difference between "enabled" and "disabled". I must have forgotten to do something. Thanks for any clue... (I am on 3.4-RELEASE on a vulgar i586 platform). furio ercolessi Spin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message