At 10:02 PM +0100 11/7/01, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>  This is not true; the last "type" of mount is recorded in the
>  superblock (at the place where tunefs enabled/disabled soft updates).

	If I understand correctly, there is only a single bit used, 
and it is used for both indicating whether softupdates should be 
enabled and whether it actually was.  Therefore this is not a 
reliable indicator.

>  I was very happy when it turned into a mount option. Because *I do* change
>  it quite often.

	I believe that the only reason for this is that softupdates 
under NetBSD is not well implemented, and therefore is not 
sufficiently stable to leave turned on.  If/when the NetBSD 
implementation is brought up to the levels where it is under FreeBSD 
that this will be much less of a problem.

	Moreover, the /etc/fstab file is not something you want to 
munge, and encouraging frequent modifications of this file to enable 
or disable softupdates is an incredibly bad idea.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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