From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 28 11:32:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29407 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@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 LAA29401; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10357; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:31:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdC10336; Thu Jan 28 19:30:54 1999 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:30:45 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis cc: Satoshi Asami , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates on / In-Reply-To: <199901281655.OAA17958@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kirk has convinsing arguments against it and "He's the man" On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > CC: to hackers, as it may be better discussed there. > > #define quoting(Satoshi Asami) > // Today I tried to remotely upgrade a machine set up by someone else. > // Unfortunately softupdates was set in / and every make installworld > // fails in /sbin as it runs out of space. > // > // I'd dare not take down the machine in the middle of installworld (even > // though it's only upgrading from 3.0-current of about 3 weeks ago -- > // I've seen weird things happen). I ended up writing a script doing a > // "cd $dir; make install; sleep 10" in /usr/src/sbin and it's finally > // chugging along. > // > // Is there some other way out of this? Also, a caution to others -- do > // not set softupdates on /, you can get into a real mess. > > Is there a strong reason for softupdates be a tunefs option, instead of > a mount option ? This could be easily solved by a > > mount -u -o async / > make install > mount -u -o softdep / > > Jonny > > -- > Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student > jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro > "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message