This seems pertinent: ---- 11.12.2 Soft Updates
The tunefs(8) program can be used to fine-tune a file system. This program has many different options, but for now we are only concerned with toggling Soft Updates on and off, which is done by: # tunefs -n enable /filesystem # tunefs -n disable /filesystem ---> A filesystem cannot be modified with tunefs(8) while it is mounted. A good time to enable Soft Updates is before any partitions have been mounted, in single-user mode. --- From: http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.2-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handbook/configtuning-disk.html Looks like you're flat out of luck :-) Cheers, Traiano ________________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] on behalf of Robert Bonomi [bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:45 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 'mount -u' stumper Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386 I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time. If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does anybody know _where_ the 'soft-updates' optioon is documented?? I've looked evereywhere I can think of, brute-force grepped wholee sections of the /usr/share/man directory tree, all without succeess. If I use 'mount -u -r' to return it to the readonly state, 'soft-updates' is *still* set. _HOW_ do I make'soft-updates' go away on a mounted filesystem ?? 'umount' and then 'mount' does the trick, but it is no a viable production' option. THe underlying situation -- the need to make the filesystem writable -- comes up only rarely, and it doesn't seem to hurt anything if the filesystem is left with soft-updates set, but I _would_ like to clear it, because it *is* logically inconsistant with the read-only status of the filesystem. Anybody got a bright idea I haven't thought of? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
