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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_alloc.c ffs_extern.h
	ffs_softdep.c
From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 00:26, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> writes:
> > This change breaks kernels without softupdates.
>=20
> Why do we even bother supporting that?  (apart from the fact that the
> installation kernel is built without SU, though it would greatly
> benefit from it: in most cases, installation is bounded by the
> filesystem write speed)

It's still an option, even if it's turned on by default.  If we're not
going to have it as an option that's fine but we should probably remove
the ability to turn it off in that case.

I just stumbled across it because I was trying to get back into the
PowerPC stuff and the PowerPC GENERIC had FFS but not SOFTUPDATES.

--=20
Benno Rice
benno@FreeBSD.org

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