Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:22:48 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams <williamsl@Home.Com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Subject: Re[4]: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <16932.991221@Home.Com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912211859190.227-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912211859190.227-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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Tuesday, December 21, 1999
So that's a "Yes you need [br]oot & fixit"? (I actually tried it
with wd0s1a too and got the same effect.) I'll just take my disks next
time I go up to see the router/webserver/mailserver(pop&smtp)/
pain-in-my-ass box and be done with it.
Thanks for the input.
Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 10:02:02 PM, you wrote:
T> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ben WIlliams wrote:
>> How far back is "used to"? I have a 3.2-RELEASE box that I tried
>> booting into single-user mode both via `shutdown now` and 'boot -s'
>> and couldn't get it to enable soft updates on /. When I did
>> `shutdown now` it would complete the `tunefs -n enable rwd0s1a` but
T> Probably because the r* superblocks are kept in memory, and don't modify
T> the ondisk superblock.
T> I think tunefs needs some more IQ in what devices it modifies. tunefs
T> is fine to use with r* devices if you just want to see what the current
T> settings are. I think tunefs should refuse to use the raw device for
T> updating parameters, and always use the raw device to display parameters
T> (so that -p works when the file system is mounted).
T> Tom
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