From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 11 11:00:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18861 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:00:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18755 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16529; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:59:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd016397; Mon May 11 10:59:30 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA04620; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:59:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805111759.KAA04620@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Soft Updates To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:59:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: julian@whistle.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com In-Reply-To: from "Alex" at May 10, 98 05:10:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think Terry had either a solution for this, and/or a good reason why > this isn't a mount option. And as always an opinion. The reason it isn't a mount option is because of an opinion; I simply have a contradictory opinion in this case. In my *opinion*, having an "async" mount *option* but a "soft updates" *tunable* violates the principle of least astonishment. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message