freebsd-dev/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates
Jordan K. Hubbard d94ce17be4 Flesh this document out just a little in response to some user
questions and also recommend linking over copying since, at this stage,
a stale copy is a real concern.
1998-06-26 10:35:55 +00:00

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Tue May 19 16:20:27 PDT 1998
For legal reasons the two active files for using Soft Updates are in
/usr/src/contrib/sys/softupdates. To enable the feature in your kernel,
link the files into this directory as follows:
cd /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs
ln -s ../../../contrib/sys/softupdates/*.[ch] .
and add option SOFTUPDATES to your kernel configuration. You should also
read the copyrights in the sources and the README file in
/usr/src/contrib/sys/softupdates before enabling this feature to ensure
that you are acting legally. The stub file provided here is only enough
to allow the system to function without this option being turned on.
Once you're running a kernel with soft update support, you need to enable
it for whichever filesystems you wish to run with the soft update policy.
This is done with the -n option to tunefs(8) on the UNMOUNTED filesystems,
e.g. from single-user mode you'd do something like:
tunefs -n enable /dev/rsd0s1d
To permanently enable soft updates on that filesystem (or at least until
a corresponding ``tunefs -n disable'' is done).
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Soft Updates code is currently in ALPHA test.
Use at your own risk!
For more general information on soft updates, please see:
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/
--
Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>