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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:33:03 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@checker.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Subject:   Re: boot single with new loader?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990110163303.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199901100446.UAA03176@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On 10-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote:
>> I have a modified version of tunefs which allows you to enable/disable
>> softupdates on root partition in single user mode. You don't even need
>> to reboot after you've run tunefs, you can simple exit the single user
>> shell, boot into multiuser mode and you root partition is softupdate
>> mounted. The patch is available at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi/ .
> 
> Any reason you don't want to commit this?

Dumb question,

what if the softupdates enabled kernel fails to load and ye have to resort
to a kernel without softupdates and / is enabled with softupdates, does the
softupdate stub catch that off and simply back out into normal FFS
behaviour?

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven    A veil of smoke is what I am,
asmodai(at)wxs.nl                         I wait and I wait...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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