From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 11:35:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D040737B8DD for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-196-248.netcologne.de [194.8.196.248]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA18074; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:35:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6AIZXu57004; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:35:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:35:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates question In-Reply-To: <20000710.19095600@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > Are there serious (or any) risks at all nowadays ? Well, I would say you are living "proof-of-concept" if you have been using softupdates with noatime for months now without any trouble. A side anecdote which might be of interest you, Salvo: I built a 3.4-RELEASE server with softupdates+vinum RAID10 a few months ago, and the server did reliably hang once every day or so. Disabling softupdates on the vinum volume (only) solved the problem, so you can take that for what it's worth. I couldn't reproduce it since then, so I think SU is stable. (I wish I took a DDB dump at the time, but now I don't have access to the server anymore...) -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message