tunefs.8 oddity

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Fri Jul 20 15:31:15 UTC 2007


On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, 23:21+0800, Xin LI wrote:

> Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > after spending a half an hour trying to help a friend of mine to turn
> > soft updates on the root filesystem on I'd like to revert a part of
> > rev. 1.21 just because it makes life of an average sysadmin easier:
> >
> > Index: tunefs.8
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8,v
> > retrieving revision 1.37
> > diff -u -p -r1.37 tunefs.8
> > --- tunefs.8    31 Oct 2006 21:52:28 -0000      1.37
> > +++ tunefs.8    20 Jul 2007 14:57:30 -0000
> > @@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ utility appeared in
> >  .Bx 4.2 .
> >  .Sh BUGS
> >  This utility should work on active file systems.
> > +To change the root filesystem, the system must be rebooted
> > +after the filesystem is tuned.
> >  .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
> >  .\" the time_t's wrap around.
> >  .Pp
> > %%%
>
> Any chance that we resolve the bug instead of documenting it? :-)
>
Personally, I have no energy/time for that.  It was documented for
ages, it is still documented in other BSDs.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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