Re: tunefs.8 oddity

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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