Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:58:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010712105801.B13401@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3B4DDF30.9CEAAAFB@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:32:32AM -0700 References: <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <20010709144801.A38630@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B4B26FE.6660FE5C@mindspring.com> <20010710091352.F48544@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B4B3A58.A6CFC592@mindspring.com> <3B4DDF30.9CEAAAFB@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 1) Soft Updates enabled on a root partition. > > This comes back to the old "you can't turn SU > on or off, except via tunefs". So even if you > boot via CDROM, it's too late, if the CDROM > kernel supports SU, since it's already on, and > you can't substitute an async mount. Why not? The install kernel does not have SOFTUPDATES enabled. Can one not mount a parition aync if the softupdates flag was set via tunefs in the past [and the running kernel does not support them]? > 2) Most of my upgrades are over a network, not > booting off of CDROM. How are you running sysinstall? I do not know what you mean by "over the network". To me that means you have made the two boot floppy set and used that -- the "network" part is where you are getting your distribution sets from. In this case, you *are* running sysinstal as init. Perhaps I do not fully understand how you are doing this. > 3) The default in 4.3-RELEASE is to have the IDE > write caching off. If you submit a patch to add the proper entries to /boot/loader.conf in the MFSROOT image, I'd commit it. This would ensure the installation process always runs with write cashing on. - -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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