Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Stephen McKay
On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to :either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine? If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should be able

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Luoqi Chen
If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Mike Smith
If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sv: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Leif Neland
From: Stephen McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to :either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine? If you boot single-user, root will be

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me that Stephen McKay remarked I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: No, don't leave it alone, make it even SLOWER than usual! /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 114 async 3850) Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? Because only meta-data writes are done

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me that David Scheidt remarked On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Stephen McKay
On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to :either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine? If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should be able to

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Luoqi Chen
If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. -Matt Matthew Dillon dil...@backplane.com

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Mike Smith
If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. -Matt Matthew Dillon dil...@backplane.com

Sv: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Leif Neland
From: Stephen McKay sys...@detir.qld.gov.au On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to :either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine? If you boot single-user, root will

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me that Stephen McKay remarked I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: No, don't leave it alone, make it even SLOWER than usual! /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 114 async 3850) Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? Because only meta-data writes are done

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me that David Scheidt remarked On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a machine with two scsi disks, one with /, one with /usr, and no :floppy. :I have turned on softupdates on /usr while usr was unmounted, but I can't :turn on softupdates on /, because it is always mounted. : :Normally the answer would be to boot on a floppy, but the machine doesn't :have

softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-17 Thread Leif Neland
I have a machine with two scsi disks, one with /, one with /usr, and no floppy. I have turned on softupdates on /usr while usr was unmounted, but I can't turn on softupdates on /, because it is always mounted. Normally the answer would be to boot on a floppy, but the machine doesn't have a

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a machine with two scsi disks, one with /, one with /usr, and no :floppy. :I have turned on softupdates on /usr while usr was unmounted, but I can't :turn on softupdates on /, because it is always mounted. : :Normally the answer would be to boot on a floppy, but the machine doesn't :have a