Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:33:03 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@checker.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Subject: Re: boot single with new loader? Message-ID: <XFMail.990110163303.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199901100446.UAA03176@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 10-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote: >> I have a modified version of tunefs which allows you to enable/disable >> softupdates on root partition in single user mode. You don't even need >> to reboot after you've run tunefs, you can simple exit the single user >> shell, boot into multiuser mode and you root partition is softupdate >> mounted. The patch is available at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi/ . > > Any reason you don't want to commit this? Dumb question, what if the softupdates enabled kernel fails to load and ye have to resort to a kernel without softupdates and / is enabled with softupdates, does the softupdate stub catch that off and simply back out into normal FFS behaviour? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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