From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 07:26:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02149 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 07:26:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02131 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 07:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.96]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4244; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:25:32 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901100446.UAA03176@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:33:03 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: boot single with new loader? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@checker.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, Luoqi Chen Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message