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Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:15:07 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
Subject:   Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) 
Message-ID:  <1192.981551707@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 05:12:17 PST." <200102071312.f17DCHt59672@mobile.wemm.org> 

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In message <200102071312.f17DCHt59672@mobile.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20010207111952.B484@nebula.cybercable.fr>, Maxime Henrion writes:
>> 
>> 
>> >What do you think of what NetBSD implemented ? softupdates is now enabled vi
>    a
>> >a mount option. This seems cleaner than the tunefs -n enable thing.
>> 
>> I have never understood why it was a tunefs thing...
>
>So that fsck(8) can see what mode the FS *was* mounted in last time. That
>bears no relationship to fstab or the current options.

Right, so if mounting in softupdates mode updates the superblock to
set the softupdates flag, why wouldn't that work ?

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