Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:23:53 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Sergey Kovalev" <skoval@mail.mipt.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with enabling soft-updates via tunefs Message-ID: <cb5206420603212223o24b00eb9m49c7440b79a783a3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44208E99.7060706@mail.mipt.ru> References: <44208E99.7060706@mail.mipt.ru>
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On 3/22/06, Sergey Kovalev <skoval@mail.mipt.ru> wrote: > Several weeks ago I tried enabling soft-updates on / partition of active > file system in multi-user mode via > tunefs -n enable /dev/ar0s1a > having remounted it read-only. > After that I just rebooted the system and according to mount > soft-updates were enabled. (I tried remounting / partition to RW w/o > rebooting but mount showed soft-updates were disabled). > I was rather satisfied that it is possible w/o making newfs, but today I > the same actions didn't work on another system (almost the same hardware > except MB). (I even tried them on the first one, but there everything > still worked fine). > > On second system I got an error something like: > /dev/ar0s1a: can't write superblock information > (to my regret I can't remember exactly but I can repeat if necessary) > > Differences between system: > I. > 1) / partition is the first on disk (256 Mb) > 2) FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE-p8 (with patch fixing soft-updates' problem with > inodes); link to patch http://kovalev.com.ru/softupdates-5.4R-p8.diff.txt > 3) Custom kernel (i can provide kernel configuration if necessary) > II. > 1) / partition was the only partition on disk (approximately 65 Gb); > there was also second 2 Gb swap partition > 2) FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE > 3) GENERIC kernel > > Is there a possibility to enable soft-updates on large / partitions at > all or there may be something else? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > As a side-note, softupdates on / is a bad idea, just as bad as a single large /
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