Soft updates (softdep) disabled for future VFS work
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#6CR87)
A low key leak from the ongoing g2k23 hackathon comes the news thatsoft updates(akasoftdep) will, for now, be a no-opon OpenBSD-current.
The commit message by Bob Beck (beck@) reads,
From: Bob Beck <beck () cvs ! openbsd ! org>Date: 2023-07-05 15:13:28CVSROOT:/cvsModule name:srcChanges by:beck@cvs.openbsd.org2023/07/05 09:13:28Modified files:sys/kern : vfs_syscalls.c sys/sys : mount.h sys/ufs/ffs : ffs_softdep.c ffs_vfsops.c Log message:Make softdep mounts a no-opSoftdep is a significant impediment to progressing in the vfs layerso we plan to get it out of the way. It is too clever for us tocontinue maintaining as it is.ok kettenis@ kn@ tobhe@ and most of the g2k23 room except bluhm@
We look forward to further work and explanation of the motivation behind this change, sure to follow.