At 12:36 PM +0100 11/8/01, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>>  	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.

	With your methods, unless there is a crash you have to re-run 
mount to turn off soft updates, so again, I don't see any practical 
difference here.

>  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 
updates, it should be able to do this in the background).  This fact 
doesn't change, no matter how soft updates is enabled.

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

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