Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:52:13 +0200 From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?E=DFer?= <se@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: Softupdates a mount option? Message-ID: <20040526215213.GB12171@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <p06002069bcdaadf2ebd0@[10.0.1.3]> References: <40B4ECC8.50808@fer.hr> <p06002069bcdaadf2ebd0@[10.0.1.3]>
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On 2004-05-26 22:28 +0200, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote: > At 9:15 PM +0200 2004/05/26, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > This has been really nagging me for a long time: Why aren't softupdates > > made a mount option (like 'sync' and 'async')? Do I remember correctly > > that it is done so in NetBSD (where it's called softdeps), so it's doable? > > You need to read the documentation from Kirk. In short, this was > intentional -- the goal is that this feature will be turned on > permanently, at which point there's no sense in having yet another > useless mount option laying around. IIRC, the license is written > such that you are not *allowed* to make this a mount option, for this > reason. > > Kirk is really serious about this. You should read the Ganger & > Platt paper, as well as the other documentation written by Kirk on > this subject. I received mail from Kirk saying quite the opposite back in July 2000, see my other reply in this threat (or search for Message-ID <200006282051.NAA05776@beastie.mckusick.com> in the freebsd-arch list archive). Regards, STefan
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