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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:33:41 -0800
From:      Dairy Wall Limey <william@hq.newdream.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   soft-updates
Message-ID:  <20011128193341.A8875@hq.newdream.net>

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i'm running freebsd 4.4 stable on two i386 boxes (my home and work
workstations).  i setup soft updates on the /usr and /var partitions on
both, but while typing 'mount' shows the 'soft-updates' option, it
doesn't show syncronous vs asyncronous writes.  is this normal? i
haven't really noticed an appreciable difference in performance when
doing stuff with heavy disk io either.

aura# mount
/dev/ad1s1a on / (ufs, local)
/dev/ad1s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad1s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)

am i doing something wrong?
i followed the instructions on a couple of sites online such as:
http://info.unix-fu.org/FreeBSD/Soft-Updates-(mini)HOWTO

- shut down machine, booted single user, did:
tunefs -n /partition

on all the partitions i wanted soft-updates for, and then rebooted.

please cc me on reply (Mail-Followup-To should be set correctly), as i'm
not on the list anymore.

aura# strings /sbin/mount |grep FreeBSD |grep mount
$FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/mount.c,v 1.39.2.3 2001/08/01 08:26:23 obrien Exp $
$FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/mount_ufs.c,v 1.16.2.3 2001/08/01 08:27:29 obrien Exp $
$FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/getmntopts.c,v 1.9 1999/10/09 11:54:06 phk Exp $
$FreeBSD: src/sbin/mount/vfslist.c,v 1.4 1999/08/28 00:13:27 peter Exp $

-william yardley

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