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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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