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Date:      Fri, 07 Dec 2001 19:37:45 +0100
From:      "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>
To:        Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount_mfs with softupdate generates panic
Message-ID:  <3C110C79.9040202@rambo.simx.org>
References:  <3C110358.9020505@rambo.simx.org> <20011207130150.E86970-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20011207181707.GA14630@rhadamanth>

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Ceri wrote:

>>>>>Has anyone used memory disks, with softupdates enabled, succesfully?
>>>>>
>>>>There isn't any point.
>>>>
>>>What do you mean no point?
>>>
>>I think he means, what's the point of SU on an async filesystem.  If
>>you're going to mount a filesystem async (and MFS is a good choice to do
>>so), why enable softupdates?
>>
>
>What he said. ;^)
>
>Ceri
>
Ah, my bad. Soft Updates on an async filesystem is more or less useless, 
I agree, but as I said, the error happens even without the async flag.

But point taken, SU is not needed when using async.

--
R


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