Subject: Re: Soft updates?
To: Ted Spradley <tsprad@spradley.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/22/2002 09:57:03
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:41:38AM -0600, Ted Spradley wrote:
> Dumb newbie question: Is softupdates on by default in NetBSD 1.5.2?
>
> I come from FreeBSD, where mount(8) shows which filesystems have
> softupdates enabled and tunefs(8) has an option to turn it off and on.
> The NetBSD tunefs(8) man page refers to McKusick and Ganger's paper, but
> doesn't have that option.
In NetBSD, softupdates is a mount option:
mount -o softdep
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