From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 20:13:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DD015251 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:13:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27236; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:13:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05204; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:13:12 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199912220413.PAA05204@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: Ben WIlliams Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: SOFTUPDATES In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:08:34 -0500. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:13:12 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How far back is "used to"? I have a 3.2-RELEASE box that I tried > booting into single-user mode both via `shutdown now` and 'boot -s' > and couldn't get it to enable soft updates on /. Looking at the CVS logs for sbin/tunefs/tunefs.c shows ---------------------------- revision 1.7 date: 1999/01/20 01:22:39; author: luoqi; state: Exp; lines: +47 -4 branches: 1.7.2; Allow tuning of read-only mounted file system. --------- which is (IIUC) before 3.1-R. But there is some other magic to do with whether the root partition is RO or RW when booting that is (i think) later. Note that 'shutdown' is not the same as 'boot -s': In the latter case, the root partition is mounted read-only and has never been mounted writable (since the last boot). In the former case, the root partition was mounted writable in multiuser mode and there is no way to go back to read-only, so the root partition is still writable (and hence not tunefs-able) in single-user mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message