Softupdates a mount option?

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:15 PM +0200 2004/05/26, Ivan Voras wrote:

>  This has been really nagging me for a long time: Why aren't softupdates
>  made a mount option (like 'sync' and 'async')? Do I remember correctly
>  that it is done so in NetBSD (where it's called softdeps), so it's doable?

	You need to read the documentation from Kirk.  In short, this was 
intentional -- the goal is that this feature will be turned on 
permanently, at which point there's no sense in having yet another 
useless mount option laying around.  IIRC, the license is written 
such that you are not *allowed* to make this a mount option, for this 
reason.

	Kirk is really serious about this.  You should read the Ganger & 
Platt paper, as well as the other documentation written by Kirk on 
this subject.

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