On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:10:01AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> | [...]
> | they just do the right thing, the better. There are also
> | technical reasons having to do with background fsck which needs
> | to know if soft updates were in use when the filesystem was
> | previously mounted. This cannot be reliably known if the
> | /etc/fstab route is used.

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

> 	I really don't see how you can argue with any of these 
> points.  Of course, that's not really surprising -- Kirk did write 

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

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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