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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 19:13:42 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Michael Adler <Michael.Adler@compaq.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))
Message-ID:  <20010530191342.G74837@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010530104537.00b04950@vssad.hlo.dec.com>; from Michael.Adler@compaq.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0400
References:  <200105250638.XAA06408@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> <200105251951.f4PJp1b42293@earth.backplane.com> <200105252225.f4PMPXI44229@earth.backplane.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010530104537.00b04950@vssad.hlo.dec.com>

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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Michael Adler wrote:
> 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.

You do realize, don't you, that just issuing a 'mount' command would
show 'soft-updates' for the filesystems that have soft updates enabled?

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
This sentence was in the past tense.

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