At 4:55 PM -0800 11/7/01, Chrischen wrote:

>  However, I wonder how you've determined that NetBSD's implementation of
>  soft updates on FFS is badly implemented...

	I have been told by other members of the NetBSD community 
that it is badly implemented, and that they are aware of this fact, 
and that they have assigned someone to go through the NetBSD and 
FreeBSD implementations with a fine-toothed comb to find out what 
further improvements need to be brought over.

	At least, this was my understanding.

>  So is using a tool like tunefs :)

	No, tunefs is something that you can make relatively 
idiot-resistant.  Unfortunately, /etc/fstab isn't.

	Now, if there were a gateway program that would not allow 
anyone (not even root, at least not in multiuser mode) to make a 
change to /etc/fstab that could potentially make it non-parseable or 
otherwise munge it in some way, then you would be able to make it 
more idiot-resistant.  However, doing so would also obviate the 
advantage of having a simple text file that stores this information.

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

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