On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:19:56PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> >  I don't munge with fstab:
> >  mount -o softdep ...
> >
> >  I don't even reboot to turn it on or off.
> 
> 	But you do have to unmount and remount the filesystem.  Since 
> tunefs only works on unmounted (or read-only) filesystems, I don't 
> see any practical difference here.

Exept that I have to rerun tunefs to turn it off.

> 
> 	Moreover, your changes don't survive reboots, whereas with 
> tunefs they would.

This is what I want. Especially if the machine crashes and reboot, I want
it to reboot with soft updates turned off.

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