On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:19:24PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > > 1) Soft Updates enabled on a root partition.
> > >
> > > This comes back to the old "you can't turn SU
> > > on or off, except via tunefs". So even if you
> > > boot via CDROM, it's too late, if the CDROM
> > > kernel supports SU, since it's already on, and
> > > you can't substitute an async mount.
> >
> > Why not? The install kernel does not have SOFTUPDATES enabled.
> > Can one not mount a parition aync if the softupdates flag was set via
> > tunefs in the past [and the running kernel does not support them]?
>
> No. The tunefs flag takes precedence.
How can the tunefs flag take precedence with the kernel doesn't even have
the softupdates code in it? The assumption most of us have is you are
booting from either CDROM or boot floppies. Below I see that wasn't the
case.
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