From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 12:29:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5C937B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:29:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6CJTs118925; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:29:54 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010712122954.F13401@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <20010709144801.A38630@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B4B26FE.6660FE5C@mindspring.com> <20010710091352.F48544@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B4B3A58.A6CFC592@mindspring.com> <3B4DDF30.9CEAAAFB@mindspring.com> <20010712105801.B13401@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B4DF83C.939061AD@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B4DF83C.939061AD@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:19:24PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:19:24PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > > 1) Soft Updates enabled on a root partition. > > > > > > This comes back to the old "you can't turn SU > > > on or off, except via tunefs". So even if you > > > boot via CDROM, it's too late, if the CDROM > > > kernel supports SU, since it's already on, and > > > you can't substitute an async mount. > > > > Why not? The install kernel does not have SOFTUPDATES enabled. > > Can one not mount a parition aync if the softupdates flag was set via > > tunefs in the past [and the running kernel does not support them]? > > No. The tunefs flag takes precedence. How can the tunefs flag take precedence with the kernel doesn't even have the softupdates code in it? The assumption most of us have is you are booting from either CDROM or boot floppies. Below I see that wasn't the case. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message