Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:23:30 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r306012 - head/etc/autofs Message-ID: <20160920072330.GA13933@brick> In-Reply-To: <20160920164312.W1333@besplex.bde.org> References: <201609200454.u8K4s0RZ025158@repo.freebsd.org> <20160920164312.W1333@besplex.bde.org>
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On 0920T1653, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote: > > > Log: > > Fix -media to not mount ufs with "async"; it doesn't make sense when > > there is softupdates. > > It does make sense when there isn't soft updates. With soft updates, it > is silently ignored. True. It might be possible to make special_media to check whether softdep is enabled using tunefs(8). > However, I don't like changing the default. async gives less robustness > and noatime breaks POSIX conformance. I liked the previous defaults too, until I've started to use this more often. For things like SD cards, "sync" is just annoyingly slow. > I use async a lot, but rarely for removable backup media except for the > first use, and noatime almost always, and type a lot of mount commands, > mostly using shell history to retrieve nearly-correct options and then > edit just to toggle ro/rw and async/noasync flags. Btw, /etc/autofs is in /etc for a reason - so that the system administrators can tweak it.
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