Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:50:30 +0000 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219667 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit Message-ID: <1300211430.87705.34.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D7FA14C.8040205@freebsd.org> References: <201103151327.p2FDRZPK044315@svn.freebsd.org> <1300198773.87705.25.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <4D7FA14C.8040205@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:26 -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/15/11 09:19, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:27 +0000, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> Author: nwhitehorn > >> Date: Tue Mar 15 13:27:34 2011 > >> New Revision: 219667 > >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219667 > >> > >> Log: > >> Turn on softupdates by default. We need a UI to set filesystem > >> parameters. > >> > >> Modified: > >> head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/gpart_ops.c > > This would appear to still be a change from the previous behaviour, > > where softupdates were enabled by default for any filesystem except for > > the root filesystem. >=20 > It is -- and this needs to become settable. Bear in mind, however, that= =20 > the default partition layout is also different. If you select the auto= =20 > option, only one file system is made, so there are no non-root file syste= ms. Hrm, I hadn't realised this was the case. If this change is intentional and planned to remain, I guess the various bits of documentation that say "several partitions good, one bad" should be updated... > > I wonder if it is time to start enabling SU+J on non-root filesystems > > now? >=20 > That's certainly something to think about, although I'll defer whether= =20 > that is wise to others. It's a little bit of a pain on the=20 > implementation side, since you can't turn it on from newfs, but that=20 > isn't a serious obstacle. As of r218726, you can now set this from newfs. (-j) Thanks, Gavin
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