Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:18:35 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum R5 [was: Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk] Message-ID: <200302241818.KAA22896@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:56:56 PST." <3E55F7E8.BD5BF990@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I think this is an expected problem with a lot of concatenation,
> whether through Vinum, GEOM, RAIDFrame, or whatever.
>
> This comes about for the same reason that you can't "mount -u"
> to turn Soft Updates from "off" to "on": Soft Updates does not
> tolerate dirty buffers for which a dependency does not exist, and
> will crap out when a pending dirty buffer causes a write.
Does this affect background fsck, too (on regular, non-vinum
filesystems)? From what little I know of bg fsck, I'm guessing not, but
I'd like to be sure. Thanks.
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