From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 16:35:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CEBE14BF8; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA17885; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:05:01 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA69001; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:05:00 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990317110500.L429@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:05:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Satoshi Asami Cc: carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au, blk@skynet.be, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates and CCD (was: Vinum questions?) References: <19990316100252.Q429@lemis.com> <199903162236.OAA04354@bubble.didi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903162236.OAA04354@bubble.didi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:36:15PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 14:36:15 -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Greg Lehey > > * This doesn't work. You should be able to enable softupdates on the > * ccd, but enabling it on the components makes no difference at all. > > You shouldn't be able to do that at all, unless there's still an old > copy of a superblock that confuses tunefs or something. Yes, that seems reasonable. > * The fact that you can do it is a bug allowed by the fact that ccd > * requires a 4.2BSD type partition. > > This is irrelevant to this discussion -- ccd requires a partition with > a disklabel entry of type "4.2BSD". It does not require a 4.2BSD (or > whatever) filesystem to actually be in there. Correct. But if ccd required its own partition type, you wouldn't be able to run tunefs on the ccd partition. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message