On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 06:45:27AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > 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?
To change if a given filesystem should use soft-updates or not you use tunefs(8) on that filesystem. (Read the manpage to find exact syntax.) Note that this cannot be done on a filsystem which is mounted read/write - only on filesystems that are unmounted or mounted read-only. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
