Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:11:11 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> Subject: Re: tunefs.8 oddity Message-ID: <46A1410F.3080703@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <46A13A10.8070108@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070720185101.F20123@mp2.macomnet.net> <46A0D313.8010904@delphij.net> <20070720192830.C20123@mp2.macomnet.net> <46A13A10.8070108@FreeBSD.org>
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Stefan Esser wrote: > Maxim Konovalov schrieb: >> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, 23:21+0800, Xin LI wrote: >> >>> Maxim Konovalov wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> after spending a half an hour trying to help a friend of mine to turn >>>> soft updates on the root filesystem on I'd like to revert a part of >>>> rev. 1.21 just because it makes life of an average sysadmin easier: >>>> >>>> Index: tunefs.8 >>>> =================================================================== >>>> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8,v >>>> retrieving revision 1.37 >>>> diff -u -p -r1.37 tunefs.8 >>>> --- tunefs.8 31 Oct 2006 21:52:28 -0000 1.37 >>>> +++ tunefs.8 20 Jul 2007 14:57:30 -0000 >>>> @@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ utility appeared in >>>> .Bx 4.2 . >>>> .Sh BUGS >>>> This utility should work on active file systems. >>>> +To change the root filesystem, the system must be rebooted >>>> +after the filesystem is tuned. >>>> .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until >>>> .\" the time_t's wrap around. >>>> .Pp >>>> %%% >>> Any chance that we resolve the bug instead of documenting it? :-) >>> >> Personally, I have no energy/time for that. It was documented for >> ages, it is still documented in other BSDs. > > It has long ago been converted to a mount option instead of a > tunefs command in NetBSD. My FreeBSD systems are patched that > way since shortly after soft-updates was committed (long before > it became available in NetBSD, IIRC); I have not checked whether > they used the (very simple) patches I had posted at that time. > > Controlling soft-updates during mount has many advantages (not > only if you decide to enable it on a root file-system that had > been created without it) and no disadvantages. > As the person who added this originally on behalf of Kirk, I think the time for this has probably come. I think even Kirk has said this might now make sense but I'd check with him first. > Regards, STefan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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