From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 12:25: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B6B4156F2 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:25:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 20035 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1999 20:25:01 -0000 Received: from userco81.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.156.11) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 1999 20:25:01 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA01768; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:24:59 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:24:59 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Tom Cc: "Dan O'Connor" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <19991223202459.E327@marder-1> References: <012301bf4cef$3fde6f20$0200000a@danco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:05:18PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Dan O'Connor wrote: > > > >Did ``boot -s'' and ran tunefs but got an error: > > > > > >Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > ># pwd > > >/ > > ># tunefs -n enable /usr > > >tunefs: soft updates set > > >tunefs: /dev/rda1s1e: reload: Invalid argument > > > > > >What caused this? There's no reference in the manpage. > > > > I've seen it on some IDE drives, and not on some other IDE drives...in each > > case softupdates was indeed enabled. > > It happens if the filesystem is not currently mounted read-only. It is > try to reload the incore (r*) device, but it was never loaded to begin > with. When you boot single user, only "/" is mounted, so all other > filesystems will give you that warning. > > So it is completely harmless. > Thanks Tom. I've submitted a PR (docs/15657) to document this warning in the manpage. Hope you don't mind, that I've used your answer pretty much verbatim? > > --Dan > > Tom > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message