RE: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))

2001-05-31 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear Michael, Actually, it had never occurred to me that soft-updates was a property of a file-system and not a global flag in the kernel. That is why I suggested a more prominent note about soft-updates. Until you suggested it, it never ocurred to me that it could be anything but a

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Adler
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

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
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

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))

2001-05-30 Thread Munish Chopra
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

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Adler
Now I do. I've not needed to mount anything manually since everything is in /etc/fstab. The output from the mount command during boot goes to the console but, by default, none of the log files. Consequently, soft-updates state is never displayed on a standard configuration except for the

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (w

2001-05-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:33:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Nice! One thing to note in the filesystem tuning is that newfs can turn on softupdates at newfs time now with -U, at least in -current. Stable too. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (w

2001-05-27 Thread Matt Dillon
: :On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:33:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: : Nice! One thing to note in the filesystem tuning is that newfs can : turn on softupdates at newfs time now with -U, at least in -current. : :Stable too. ;-) : So as not to make a thousand little commits, I'll just put

Re: RE: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (w

2001-05-26 Thread Matt Dillon
:[ snip ] : :Nice! One thing to note in the filesystem tuning is that newfs can :turn on softupdates at newfs time now with -U, at least in -current. I'll clarify it. : .Sh HISTORY : The : .Nm : manual page was originally written by : .An Matthew Dillon : and first appeared : in : .Fx

Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))

2001-05-25 Thread Matt Dillon
Ok, here is my first shot at a 'tuning' manual page. If anyone wants to review it, I am open to all suggestions, grammatical and formatting, fixes etc... just email me with the changes (do not email the entire document back to me, just a diff). It's not 100% complete (well

RE: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (w

2001-05-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-May-01 Matt Dillon wrote: Ok, here is my first shot at a 'tuning' manual page. If anyone wants to review it, I am open to all suggestions, grammatical and formatting, fixes etc... just email me with the changes (do not email the entire document back to me, just a