Subject: Re: Question about activating SoftUpdates.
To: xs@nitric.net, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/06/2001 02:58:39
At 10:57 PM +0000 11/5/01, xs@nitric.net wrote:

>  I do not know. But NetBSD is not the only BSD doing it with a mount option:
>  http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#14.5
>
>  Where did Kirk say he didn't wish it to be implemented in this fashion?

	You'll notice that in both OpenBSD and NetBSD, they used to 
use the tunefs method of enabling softupdates, but starting with 
OpenBSD 2.9 and NetBSD 1.5, this changed.  Hopefully, Kirk will be 
able to get back to me sometime fairly soon and help me understand 
the details of why and under what circumstances.

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

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