Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:16:06 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5 Message-ID: <20020130191606.640EC4078@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201302008560.13294-100000@apache.metrocom.ru> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201302008560.13294-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>
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On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:09 pm, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> Then the difference lays only in the fact that on 4.5 the softupdates flag
> can be turned on in the sysinstall procedure?
No, you could do that in the 4.4 install procedure as well.
>
> Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
> Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax)
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:00:48 -0300 (ART)
> > From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
> > To: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> > > Hi people,
> > >
> > > So to make softupdates work, the partition should be reformatted under
> > > 4.5, which means that after an upgrade from an earlier FreeBSD version
> > > (without disk reformatting) the soft updates will not work, is it true?
You might be thinking of the new optimized disk layout code. *That* requires
reformatting the file system, but softupdates do not.
> >
> > no, it is not true. Up to 4.4 you don't need to re create the file system
> > and I dont see why this should change.
> >
> > to enable soft updates on a file system, unmount it and run a
> > # tunefs -n enable <FS>
> >
> >
> > Fer
> >
> >
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