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

[Peter Wemm]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Wemm writes:
> >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maxime Henrion writ
    es:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >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 ?

It would work fine, but Kirk told me not to bother submitting patches
because he had something else in mind (or at least, that's the way I
interpreted the mail).

Cheers,
-Peter
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