Softupdates a mount option?
StefanEßer
se at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 26 14:52:47 PDT 2004
On 2004-05-26 22:28 +0200, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:
> 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.
I received mail from Kirk saying quite the opposite back in July 2000, see my other reply
in this threat (or search for Message-ID <200006282051.NAA05776 at beastie.mckusick.com> in
the freebsd-arch list archive).
Regards, STefan
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