From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 06:23:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DA616A420 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:23:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B212B43D66 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:23:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s1so79332nze for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:23:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IY3RzWq2jhg1NhfDEO4LTFFeJ1iFipA4iWOMhRpmB4Xc+5p5AOKPJda0jzqi87xut8ID7Ew2I6CA6lbiPjdkkJsWY/A/8w6easYih+KaA7MLlmnjrKVvaJikVYS/OpTYNziA2pRPq3qe83ezicnoz0Sqy/PT/iHwMRzJwRBOOPc= Received: by 10.36.247.26 with SMTP id u26mr756262nzh; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:23:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.22.74 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:23:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:23:53 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: "Sergey Kovalev" In-Reply-To: <44208E99.7060706@mail.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <44208E99.7060706@mail.mipt.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with enabling soft-updates via tunefs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:23:59 -0000 On 3/22/06, Sergey Kovalev wrote: > Several weeks ago I tried enabling soft-updates on / partition of active > file system in multi-user mode via > tunefs -n enable /dev/ar0s1a > having remounted it read-only. > After that I just rebooted the system and according to mount > soft-updates were enabled. (I tried remounting / partition to RW w/o > rebooting but mount showed soft-updates were disabled). > I was rather satisfied that it is possible w/o making newfs, but today I > the same actions didn't work on another system (almost the same hardware > except MB). (I even tried them on the first one, but there everything > still worked fine). > > On second system I got an error something like: > /dev/ar0s1a: can't write superblock information > (to my regret I can't remember exactly but I can repeat if necessary) > > Differences between system: > I. > 1) / partition is the first on disk (256 Mb) > 2) FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE-p8 (with patch fixing soft-updates' problem with > inodes); link to patch http://kovalev.com.ru/softupdates-5.4R-p8.diff.txt > 3) Custom kernel (i can provide kernel configuration if necessary) > II. > 1) / partition was the only partition on disk (approximately 65 Gb); > there was also second 2 Gb swap partition > 2) FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE > 3) GENERIC kernel > > Is there a possibility to enable soft-updates on large / partitions at > all or there may be something else? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > As a side-note, softupdates on / is a bad idea, just as bad as a single large /