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From: furio ercolessi <furio@spin.it>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cannot start softupdates, why?
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On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:13:38PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > I did "ln -s ../../contrib/softupdates/*.[ch] ."  in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs.
> > I put "options SOFTUPDATES" in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/<NAME>.
> > I make-installed the custom kernel.
> > I rebooted, went single user, unmounted my /var partition and did
> >    # tunefs -n enable /dev/da0s1e
> >    tunefs: soft updates set
> >    # tunefs -p /dev/da0s1e
> >    tunefs: soft updates:  (-n)                                enabled
> >      [...more output...]
> >    # mount /dev/da0s1e /var
> >    # mount
> >      [...]
> >    /dev/da0s1e on /var (ufs, local, writes: sync 2 async 0)
> > 
> > Now I understand that at this point softupdates should appear
> > in the list within (...). 
> 
> afaik under 3.x you must tunefs the raw device (/dev/rda0s1e).

Nope:
	# tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0s1e
	tunefs: soft updates set
	# tunefs -p /dev/rda0s1e
	tunefs: soft updates:  (-n)                                enabled
	 [...]
	# mount /dev/da0s1e /var
	# mount | grep s1e
	/dev/da0s1e on /var (ufs, local, writes: sync 2 async 0)

-furio

> hope this helps,
> -Alfred


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