Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:38:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@checker.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Subject: Re: boot single with new loader? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901101036480.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990110163303.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On 10-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote: > >> I have a modified version of tunefs which allows you to enable/disable > >> softupdates on root partition in single user mode. You don't even need > >> to reboot after you've run tunefs, you can simple exit the single user > >> shell, boot into multiuser mode and you root partition is softupdate > >> mounted. The patch is available at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi/ . > > > > Any reason you don't want to commit this? > > Dumb question, > > what if the softupdates enabled kernel fails to load and ye have to resort > to a kernel without softupdates and / is enabled with softupdates, does the > softupdate stub catch that off and simply back out into normal FFS > behaviour? Afaik the only thing softupdates does to the disk is enable a flag in the superblock, non softupdates kernels ignore it (i've tried this) Luoqi: i haven't looked at your utility, but it seems that it does a remount, why is it nessesary to go to single user mode then? -Alfred > > --- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, > asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... > Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; > BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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