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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:25:06 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy 
Message-ID:  <199907190725.RAA13642@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:06:38 -0700"
References:  <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to
>:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine?
>
>    If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should
>    be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. 

I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete
behaviour.  I kept filling up root while updating kernels.  It doesn't
gain you much on little used file systems anyway.  So, I recommend
people leave root alone.

Stephen.


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