From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 14:43:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3ACD14E77 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA10089; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:42:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA05137; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:42:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org> To: "David Schwartz" Subject: Re: make install trick Cc: current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Oct 1999 14:31:28 PDT." <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:42:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> "David Schwartz" writes: : It's really not a bug, it's just a missing feature. There's no requirement : that a filesystem reclaim empty space immediately. You really shouldn't be : using fastupdates on nearly full filesystems -- it doesn't handle that : situation particularly well. Nearly full? It is a 32M file system with 15M free. That's not nearly full. The problem is that the update rate is faster than the softupdate code can deal with. Running sync between each install shows that this is a bug. sync is supposed to be idempotent. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message