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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:06:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Joe McGuckin <joe@monk.via.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SOFTUPDATES code in 3.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901222304540.78465-100000@smarter.than.nu>
In-Reply-To: <199901230659.WAA13353@monk.via.net>

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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joe McGuckin wrote:

> Is this code included, or must it be patched in?

Because of licensing issues, you have to enable it yourself.  See the
instructions in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates for how to do this.

> Is softupdates enabled by default or do I have to use a special 
> mount flag?

Neither. :)  Once you have a softupdates kernel, you use 
"tunefs -n enable" on the unmounted filesystem to enable softupdates.
(You only have to do this once.)

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Brian Buchanan                                     brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
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