From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 7 7:28:20 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 07:28:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gate1.health.state.ny.us (gate.health.state.ny.us [192.135.176.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BBB937B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 07:28:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by gate1.health.state.ny.us id KAA19604 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 4.2 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG); Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:28:15 -0500 Message-Id: <200012071528.KAA19604@gate1.health.state.ny.us> Received: by gate1.health.state.ny.us (Internal Mail Agent-1); Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:28:15 -0500 X-Lotus-Fromdomain: NYSDOH From: "Steven D. Smith" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:27:59 -0500 Subject: Re: Softupdates? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What are 'softupdates'? Max Khon on 12/07/2000 08:53:28 AM To: Eric M Logan cc: STABLE (bcc: Steven D. Smith/HSB/ISHSG/DIVADMIN/DOH) Subject: Re: Softupdates? hi, there! On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Eric M Logan wrote: > How does one make use of softupdates with FreeBSD 4.2? I've tried > "enabling" it via the "softdep" option in fstab and when I reboot, it > complains that the "-o softdep" options isn't supported. I've tried > rebooting the computer in single mode and using "tunefs -n enable" but > when I issue the command "mount" the UFS is still specified? Am I > missing something? Btw, I'm using FreeBSD 4.2 with a recompiled kernel > supporting FFS/softupdate. Any help would be greatly appreciated. please show output of `mount' command. after `tunefs -n enable' you should have something like this: /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message