From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 28 12:33:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09312 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:33:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miris.lcs.mit.edu (miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09307 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beng@lcs.mit.edu) Received: from alnitak (root@miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by miris.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA22608; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:33:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199901282033.PAA22608@miris.lcs.mit.edu> From: "Benjamin Greenwald" To: "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" , "Julian Elischer" Cc: , Subject: RE: softupdates on / Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:33:16 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <199901281951.RAA26420@roma.coe.ufrj.br> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The technical reason is a very simple one: the fsck algorithm is different for softupdate partitions. Therefore, it has to be a tunefs option. If you want more details, check the archives. There was a discusion on exactly this topic a few months back in freebsd-current. -Ben Greenwald -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 2:52 PM To: Julian Elischer Cc: jonny@jonny.eng.br; asami@cs.berkeley.edu; stable@freebsd.org; hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates on / #define quoting(Julian Elischer) // On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: // > Is there a strong reason for softupdates be a tunefs option, instead of // > a mount option ? This could be easily solved by a // // kirk has convinsing arguments against it and "He's the man" ^^^^^^^^^ I got your point, but can you list these arguments ? If it's only "he wants it this way, god only knows why", it's allright, but if there's a technical reason, I'd like to know. Thanks in advance, Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message