Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:50:32 -0400 From: Michael Adler <Michael.Adler@compaq.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Subject: Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...)) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010530104537.00b04950@vssad.hlo.dec.com> In-Reply-To: <200105252225.f4PMPXI44229@earth.backplane.com> References: <200105250638.XAA06408@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> <200105251951.f4PJp1b42293@earth.backplane.com>
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Thank you for the tuning page! I and, I fear, others made the mistake of assuming that because SOFTUPDATES is in the kernel that it is automatically enabled for the disks. Nothing printed during boot leads me to believe otherwise and no mention was made of checking the flag using tunefs in /usr/src/UPDATING. My drives formatted with standard methods in the past had soft updates disabled. Perhaps there should be a message somewhere prominent encouraging people to check whether their drives really have soft updates enabled. It would also be useful if something during boot showed whether a mount would be using soft updates. -Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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