Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Wemm writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maxime Henrion writes:
>> 
>> 
>> >What do you think of what NetBSD implemented ? softupdates is now enabled vi
>    a
>> >a mount option. This seems cleaner than the tunefs -n enable thing.
>> 
>> I have never understood why it was a tunefs thing...
>
>So that fsck(8) can see what mode the FS *was* mounted in last time. That
>bears no relationship to fstab or the current options.

Right, so if mounting in softupdates mode updates the superblock to
set the softupdates flag, why wouldn't that work ?

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