Re: Softupdates a mount option?

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