Date: 04 Oct 1998 19:42:08 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates and 2.2.6 Message-ID: <xzpogrsi5qn.fsf@hel.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Duncan Barclay's message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 11:35:30 %2B0100 (BST)" References: <XFMail.981004113530.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> writes: > I've just started doing builds for -3.0BETA on my -stable box. Can I have a disk > set up for soft updates under -3.0BETA and still be able to mount it under > -2.2.6 (after a reboot of course!) Yes. The only change Soft Updates introduce on-disk is a flag set in the superblock to indicate that the file system is to be mounted with Soft Updates enabled. Soft Updates only affect the order in which data is written to disk, not what they look like. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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