Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:00:35 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Kenneth Henry" <mhenry@black.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates & syncer Message-ID: <19990831010122.822E5158B2@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990830153519.00a68320@ekimaphost> from "Bryan Talbot" at Aug 30, 99 03:37:19 pm
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> Could you please be specific as to which documents direct you to "comment > out the update program in /etc/rc"? I don't see any mention to that in > either of the softupdate README files. The file is /sys/contrib/softupdates/README. (Also available at: http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source/contrib/softupdates/ Here is the specific text that talks about modifying /etc/rc: 156 Kernel Changes 157 158 There are two new changes to the kernel functionality that are not 159 contained in in the soft update files. The first is a `trickle 160 sync' facility running in the kernel as process 3. This trickle 161 sync process replaces the traditional `update' program (which should 162 be commented out of the /etc/rc startup script). . . . 239 Operation 240 241 Once you have booted a kernel that incorporates the soft update 242 code and installed the updated utilities, do the following: 243 244 1) Comment out the update program in /etc/rc. 245 246 2) Run `tunefs -n enable' on one or more test filesystems. 247 248 3) Mount these filesystems and then type `mount' to ensure that 249 they have been enabled for soft updates. 250 251 4) Copy the test directory to a softdep filesystem, chdir into 252 it and run `./doit'. You may want to check out each of the 253 three subtests individually first: doit1 - andrew benchmarks, 254 doit2 - copy and removal of /etc, doit3 - find from /. > > I've been running softupdates and haven't had to touch anything in the > startup scripts to make them work. > > -Bryan > > > At 03:35 AM 8/30/99 , you wrote: > >Hi all, > > > > In the softupdates documentation it says I need to > >"Comment out the update program in /etc/rc". I assume this > >is the syncer daemon, but I haven't been able to find a > >reference to it in /etc/rc. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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