At 7:55 PM +0100 11/8/01, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>>  >  This is what I want. Especially if the machine crashes and reboot, I want
>>  >  it to reboot with soft updates turned off.
>>
>>  	Why?  If the system crashed with soft updates turned on,
>>  there are going to be certain types of soft updates cruft lying
>>  around in the filesystem, and fsck is going to have to fix those
>>  problems (although with more advanced implementations of soft
>
>  And it can, as this info is stored in the superblock.

	Right, but because you didn't change /etc/fstab, if you want 
to re-re-enable soft updates again, you have to re-run the mount 
command again.  If you used the tunefs solution, you might have to 
run tunefs+mount once, but then you don't need to run it again until 
you explicitly decide to disable softupdates.

	I don't want to sound argumentative or anything, but I'm just 
not understanding why you'd want to always have soft updates turned 
off on boot (although you know that this will change in the future), 
and then to manually re-enable it every time for those filesystems 
where you want it.  It just isn't making any sense.

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

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