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Subject: [PATCH] Kernel config chapter in handbook
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>Number:         34137
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] Kernel config chapter in handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 21 14:20:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Fri Feb 1 01:55:04 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Fri Feb 01 01:55:27 PST 2002
>Originator:     
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5
>Organization:
nope
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD localhost 4.5

>Description:
Handbook kernel configuration chapter is lacking some options,
this patch will add a paragraph that will add the softupdates option, along with
two man page refs, newfs(8) and tunefs(8).

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:


Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes
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*** chapter.sgml.old	Mon Jan 21 14:05:44 2002
--- chapter.sgml	Mon Jan 21 16:10:14 2002
***************
*** 601,606 ****
--- 601,613 ----
      <para>This is the basic hard drive filesystem.  Leave it in if you
        boot from the hard disk.</para>
  
+     <programlisting>options	     SOFTUPDATES  #Enable FFS soft updates support</programlisting>
+ 
+     <para>This option enables soft updates in the kernel, this will speed up write access on most
+       filesystems considerably, but they are not enabled by default.  You will
+       need to enable them manually with the &man.tunefs.8; command for current filesystems,
+       or &man.newfs.8; to enable them on new filesystems.</para>
+ 
      <programlisting>options          UFS_DIRHASH  #Improve performance on big directories</programlisting>
  
      <para>This option includes some code to speed up disk operations on large
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jim 
State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 1 01:55:04 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Closed by docs/34499. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=34137 
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