On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Michael Adler wrote:
> Thank you for the tuning page! I and, I fear, others made the mistake of
> assuming that because SOFTUPDATES is in the kernel that it is automatically
> enabled for the disks. Nothing printed during boot leads me to believe
> otherwise and no mention was made of checking the flag using tunefs in
> /usr/src/UPDATING. My drives formatted with standard methods in the past
> had soft updates disabled.
>
> Perhaps there should be a message somewhere prominent encouraging people to
> check whether their drives really have soft updates enabled. It would also
> be useful if something during boot showed whether a mount would be using
> soft updates.
You do realize, don't you, that just issuing a 'mount' command would
show 'soft-updates' for the filesystems that have soft updates enabled?
G'luck,
Peter
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