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 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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