From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 12:27:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98C437B404 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0RKRFG48067; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:27:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101272027.f0RKRFG48067@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kwangyul Seo Cc: freebsd-questions From: David Kelly Subject: Re: how can i remove softupdates? In-reply-to: Message from Kwangyul Seo of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:44:18 +0900." <20010127214418.A1197@plus.or.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:27:15 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kwangyul Seo writes: > > I've seen "options SOFTUPDATES" in my kernel configuration file. > I wonder how I can change this FFS update mode. > If I just remove "options SOFTUPDATES" then it goes to async mode? Softupdates does nothing until you use tunefs(8) on each and every filesystem you want it used for. Type "mount" with no argruments. If you don't see "soft-updates" listed then its not being used. % mount /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s3e on /usr2 (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s3f on /usr3 (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s3g on /usr4 (ufs, local, soft-updates) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message