Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's not the

Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Sean Murphy
I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. This will allow fsck to run in the background to restore the consistency of the file system which

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. This will allow fsck to run in the background to

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Bill Moran
Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's not the purpose. The purpose is to improve

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Sean Murphy
Chuck Swiger wrote the following on 12/1/2006 4:25 PM: On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 1, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Thank you for your knowledge on this issue. I have a few questions that I need your help to clarify. You are welcome, although knowledge can be a tricky thing. :-) Snapshots are taken via mksnap_ffs; some other tools like fsck or dump also

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Bill Moran wrote: Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's not the purpose. The purpose is