From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 27 12:06:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81121065670 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: from lisa.milos.co.za (lisa.milos.co.za [109.169.49.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9998FC12 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 65810 invoked by uid 80); 27 Aug 2012 12:06:53 -0000 To: Matt Smith X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:main.inc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:06:53 +0100 From: clay@milos.co.za In-Reply-To: References: <2d4dfcb2637f4d0e9671899538b603d9@xtaz.co.uk> Message-ID: <12a12894ae0617e5782093c6ce4139e3@milos.co.za> X-Sender: clay@milos.co.za User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.7.2 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:06:55 -0000 On 27.08.2012 11:15, Matt Smith wrote: > On 2012-08-27 10:25, clay@milos.co.za wrote: >> I'm far from anything near an expert on file systems but I'd suggest >> you remove softupdates and leave journaling on. >> tunefs -n disable >> There's no need to have both on and although I agree that both >> SHOULD >> work together there's no reason to have them on together. It will >> only >> slow down writes to the file system. Effectively soft updates was a >> go-between before journalin was introduced. >> > > Really? This is SU+J journalling that I'm using. Not gjournal. Surely > SU+J does require softupdates to be on as it's part of the same > thing? > Output from tunefs -p: > > tunefs: soft updates: (-n) enabled > tunefs: soft update journaling: (-j) enabled > tunefs: gjournal: (-J) disabled I saw that you had soft updates and soft updates journaling in your original email. What you have is correct. That is how 9.x sets up the FS by default nowadays.