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Date:      28 Jun 2000 18:25:06 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Soft updates mount change (17 Jun)
Message-ID:  <xzpzoo5wz6l.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:15:09 -0700"
References:  <200006272212.PAA36120@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> <20000628094841.D77839@skriver.dk> <xzphfadyh9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000628091509.V275@fw.wintelcom.net>

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Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes:
> * Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> [000628 08:11] wrote:
> > s/week/year/. This has been discussed many times, and while the
> > current solution (fs flag) is not particularly elegant, it is the
> > lesser evil.
> IMO there's nothing wrong with mount doing what tunefs does, setting
> the softdep bit before actually mounting it, changing it while
> mounted would not be supported.

If you use a filesystem marked for softupdates on a non-SU system, and
have a crash, fsck will go nuts and spew gobs of "UNEXPECTED
SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY" messages.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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