From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 11 00:40:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09440 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09435; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12509; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd012507; Wed Mar 11 00:39:09 1998 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:34:48 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Amancio Hasty , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates code not Prime Time yet. In-Reply-To: <26558.889604088@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For what it's worth, I didn't take Jordan's comment as a negative one, and When I'm in a position to tackle it I'm sore it will be useful. no-one expects soft-updates to be perfect ESPECIALLY on SMP quite yet.. teh thing that is getting me is that FreeBSD has diverged enough from 4.4 that we appear to have a whole new depdndency path to intercept that kirk hasn't had to deal with before.. the way I trap this is: two machines sharing a SCSI bus. one runs 'make world' every now and then the 2nd machine forces it into the kernel debugger (serial) and then does a fsck -n on the disk. When this is complete the 2nd machine allows the 1st to continue. If soft-updates were working, then there should never be any problem other than 'free blocks marked in use' or an unreferenced file. but we are seeing some that are NOT supposed to happen. (i.e the dependancies have not benn done in order). On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I have to echo what Julian is saying additionally if you are not prepared > > to give a kernel stack trace and possibly nice printfs of kernel data > > structures then don't try soft updates. I hate bug reports like > > "soft update crashed my system" 8) > > Oh, I never meant to imply that such wouldn't be available on request. > We can reproduce the crash so easily that Julian can have all the > stack traces and core dumps and kernel images that he likes, we can > even put them up for anon FTP if he needs it. :) > > Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message