Subject: Re: Question about activating SoftUpdates.
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@asim.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/08/2001 12:36:27
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:19:56PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > I don't munge with fstab:
> > mount -o softdep ...
> >
> > I don't even reboot to turn it on or off.
>
> But you do have to unmount and remount the filesystem. Since
> tunefs only works on unmounted (or read-only) filesystems, I don't
> see any practical difference here.
Exept that I have to rerun tunefs to turn it off.
>
> Moreover, your changes don't survive reboots, whereas with
> tunefs they would.
This is what I want. Especially if the machine crashes and reboot, I want
it to reboot with soft updates turned off.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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