Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:13:42 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Michael Adler <Michael.Adler@compaq.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...)) Message-ID: <20010530191342.G74837@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010530104537.00b04950@vssad.hlo.dec.com>; from Michael.Adler@compaq.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0400 References: <200105250638.XAA06408@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> <200105251951.f4PJp1b42293@earth.backplane.com> <200105252225.f4PMPXI44229@earth.backplane.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010530104537.00b04950@vssad.hlo.dec.com>
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Michael Adler wrote: > Thank you for the tuning page! I and, I fear, others made the mistake of > assuming that because SOFTUPDATES is in the kernel that it is automatically > enabled for the disks. Nothing printed during boot leads me to believe > otherwise and no mention was made of checking the flag using tunefs in > /usr/src/UPDATING. My drives formatted with standard methods in the past > had soft updates disabled. > > Perhaps there should be a message somewhere prominent encouraging people to > check whether their drives really have soft updates enabled. It would also > be useful if something during boot showed whether a mount would be using > soft updates. You do realize, don't you, that just issuing a 'mount' command would show 'soft-updates' for the filesystems that have soft updates enabled? G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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