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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:30:45 +0200
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se>
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>
In-Reply-To: <20000622080509.A4065@enterprise.sanyusan.se>; from anders@sanyusan.se on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:05:09AM %2B0200
References:  <200006220029.RAA97417@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000621223309.G47446@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <86g0q6gw5x.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000622080509.A4065@enterprise.sanyusan.se>

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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

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