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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:33:30 -0800
From:      "Joseph T. Lee" <nugundam@la.best.com>
To:        Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks?
Message-ID:  <19990111163330.B27416@la.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <369605D3.C9523819@webwizard.org.mx>; from Edwin Culp on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 07:19:16AM -0600
References:  <17875.915798021@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <369605D3.C9523819@webwizard.org.mx>

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On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 07:19:16AM -0600, Edwin Culp wrote:
> Once you're running a kernel with soft update support, you need to enable
> it for whichever filesystems you wish to run with the soft update policy.
> This is done with the -n option to tunefs(8) on the UNMOUNTED filesystems,
> e.g. from single-user mode you'd do something like:
> 
>         tunefs -n enable /dev/rsd0s1d
> 
> To permanently enable soft updates on that filesystem (or at least until
> a corresponding ``tunefs -n disable'' is done).

For softupdates on /, since you can't umount it, it's something like
tunefs -n enable /, and then hit the reset key.. preferably in single
user mode.

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