From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 22:42:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 22:42:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beoclu-01.phy.gasou.edu (beoclu-01.phy.GaSoU.edu [141.165.40.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458EB37B404 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:42:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sdodson@localhost) by beoclu-01.phy.gasou.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB96gaK00628 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 01:42:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sdodson) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 01:42:36 -0500 From: "Scott C. Dodson" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates? Message-ID: <20001209014236.A617@beoclu-01.phy.gasou.edu> References: <3A2F9020.A72DDDE6@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kirill@tro.de on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:51:14PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:51:14PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Eric M Logan wrote: > > > How does one make use of softupdates with FreeBSD 4.2? I've tried > >"enabling" it via the "softdep" option in fstab and when I reboot, it > >complains that the "-o softdep" options isn't supported. I've tried > >rebooting the computer in single mode and using "tunefs -n enable" but > >when I issue the command "mount" the UFS is still specified? Am I > >missing something? Btw, I'm using FreeBSD 4.2 with a recompiled kernel > >supporting FFS/softupdate. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks. > > options SOFTUPDATES in your kernel config I was wondering, is it a good idea or bad idea to use softupdates on a vinum vollume? -- scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message