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. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles_at_skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.Received on Wed May 26 2004 - 11:30:12 UTC
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