On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:26 -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/15/11 09:19, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:27 +0000, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> Author: nwhitehorn > >> Date: Tue Mar 15 13:27:34 2011 > >> New Revision: 219667 > >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219667 > >> > >> Log: > >> Turn on softupdates by default. We need a UI to set filesystem > >> parameters. > >> > >> Modified: > >> head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/gpart_ops.c > > This would appear to still be a change from the previous behaviour, > > where softupdates were enabled by default for any filesystem except for > > the root filesystem. > > It is -- and this needs to become settable. Bear in mind, however, that > the default partition layout is also different. If you select the auto > option, only one file system is made, so there are no non-root file systems.
Hrm, I hadn't realised this was the case. If this change is intentional and planned to remain, I guess the various bits of documentation that say "several partitions good, one bad" should be updated... > > I wonder if it is time to start enabling SU+J on non-root filesystems > > now? > > That's certainly something to think about, although I'll defer whether > that is wise to others. It's a little bit of a pain on the > implementation side, since you can't turn it on from newfs, but that > isn't a serious obstacle. As of r218726, you can now set this from newfs. (-j) Thanks, Gavin _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"