Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:30:36 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoftUpdates anomaly: what happens when you 'mount -u -o ro /usr'? Message-ID: <18815.908379036@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 Oct 1998 17:06:45 %2B0200" References: <xzpvhlnfaii.fsf@bombur.ifi.uio.no>
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> I thought a little more about it and found that /usr and /mp3 had one > thing in common: they're both usually mounted ro, but I occasionally > mount them rw for specific thing (make installworld, building the > docs, dumping a CD). To take installworld as an example, what I do is: > > # cd /usr/src > # mount -u -o rw /usr > # make installworld > # mount -u -o ro /usr This sounds similar to problems I had more than a year ago. I was trying to run with a readonly /usr, and needed to mount it rw occasionally to install things etc. The long and short of it was that I was never able to get this to work reliably, because I had fairly frequent kernel panics and inconsistent file systems. As soon as I stopped trying to change /usr between ro and rw, the problems disappeared. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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