From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 07:34:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02859 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 07:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02852 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 07:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA84179; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:38:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:38:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@checker.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, Luoqi Chen Subject: Re: boot single with new loader? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > 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? Afaik the only thing softupdates does to the disk is enable a flag in the superblock, non softupdates kernels ignore it (i've tried this) Luoqi: i haven't looked at your utility, but it seems that it does a remount, why is it nessesary to go to single user mode then? -Alfred > > --- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message