Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:06:05 +0000 From: Traiano Welcome <Traiano.Welcome@mtnbusiness.co.za> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 'mount -u' stumper Message-ID: <E012414FCF65894B89F69DE76AE15E9905906D6C@CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net> In-Reply-To: <201106221145.p5MBjRwb057115@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201106221145.p5MBjRwb057115@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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=0A= This seems pertinent:=0A= =0A= ----=0A= 11.12.2 Soft Updates=0A= =0A= The tunefs(8) program can be used to fine-tune a file system. This program = has many different options, but for now we are only concerned with toggling= Soft Updates on and off, which is done by:=0A= =0A= # tunefs -n enable /filesystem=0A= # tunefs -n disable /filesystem=0A= =0A= ---> A filesystem cannot be modified with tunefs(8) while it is mounted. A = good time to enable Soft Updates is before any partitions have been mounted= , in single-user mode.=0A= ---=0A= =0A= From:=0A= =0A= http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.2-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handbook/configtuning= -disk.html=0A= =0A= Looks like you're flat out of luck :-)=0A= =0A= Cheers,=0A= Traiano=0A= =0A= =0A= ________________________________________=0A= From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.= org] on behalf of Robert Bonomi [bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com]=0A= Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:45 PM=0A= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=0A= Subject: 'mount -u' stumper=0A= =0A= Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386=0A= =0A= I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time.=0A= =0A= If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but=0A= "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does anybody know _where_=0A= the 'soft-updates' optioon is documented?? I've looked evereywhere I=0A= can think of, brute-force grepped wholee sections of the /usr/share/man=0A= directory tree, all without succeess.=0A= =0A= If I use 'mount -u -r' to return it to the readonly state, 'soft-updates' i= s=0A= *still* set.=0A= =0A= _HOW_ do I make'soft-updates' go away on a mounted filesystem ??=0A= =0A= 'umount' and then 'mount' does the trick, but it is no a viable production'= =0A= option.=0A= =0A= THe underlying situation -- the need to make the filesystem writable -- com= es=0A= up only rarely, and it doesn't seem to hurt anything if the filesystem is= =0A= left with soft-updates set, but I _would_ like to clear it, because it *is*= =0A= logically inconsistant with the read-only status of the filesystem.=0A= =0A= Anybody got a bright idea I haven't thought of?=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= _______________________________________________=0A= freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0A= http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0A= To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "=0A=
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