Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:12:24 +0200 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...)) Message-ID: <20010530191224.J15580@messiah.megadeb.org> 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. Same thing happened to me. I figured it was in the kernel, so it was 'on'. > 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. It would be nice if there was a boot message saying 'Soft Updates On/Off'. Would have helped me, at least (no, I haven't mounted from the command line lately). BTW, I haven't turned on soft updates on the root partition, though I know it's possible. Is there any reason to do so (a compelling one), or am I maybe even better off leaving that alone? -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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