svn commit: r219667 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:26 -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 03/15/11 09:19, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:27 +0000, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> >> Author: nwhitehorn
> >> Date: Tue Mar 15 13:27:34 2011
> >> New Revision: 219667
> >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219667
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>    Turn on softupdates by default. We need a UI to set filesystem
> >> parameters.
> >>
> >> Modified:
> >>    head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/gpart_ops.c
> > This would appear to still be a change from the previous behaviour,
> > where softupdates were enabled by default for any filesystem except for
> > the root filesystem.
> 
> It is -- and this needs to become settable. Bear in mind, however, that 
> the default partition layout is also different. If you select the auto 
> option, only one file system is made, so there are no non-root file systems.

Hrm, I hadn't realised this was the case.  If this change is intentional
and planned to remain, I guess the various bits of documentation that
say "several partitions good, one bad" should be updated...

> > I wonder if it is time to start enabling SU+J on non-root filesystems
> > now?
> 
> That's certainly something to think about, although I'll defer whether 
> that is wise to others. It's a little bit of a pain on the 
> implementation side, since you can't turn it on from newfs, but that 
> isn't a serious obstacle.

As of r218726, you can now set this from newfs. (-j)

Thanks,

Gavin