Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:45:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 'mount -u' stumper Message-ID: <201106221145.p5MBjRwb057115@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386 I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time. If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does anybody know _where_ the 'soft-updates' optioon is documented?? I've looked evereywhere I can think of, brute-force grepped wholee sections of the /usr/share/man directory tree, all without succeess. If I use 'mount -u -r' to return it to the readonly state, 'soft-updates' is *still* set. _HOW_ do I make'soft-updates' go away on a mounted filesystem ?? 'umount' and then 'mount' does the trick, but it is no a viable production' option. THe underlying situation -- the need to make the filesystem writable -- comes up only rarely, and it doesn't seem to hurt anything if the filesystem is left with soft-updates set, but I _would_ like to clear it, because it *is* logically inconsistant with the read-only status of the filesystem. Anybody got a bright idea I haven't thought of?
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