Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:38:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Cc: jake@checker.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdate panic, anyone seen this? Message-ID: <199902200038.RAA14993@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199902180912.BAA18642@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from "Don Lewis" at Feb 18, 99 01:12:50 am
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> After reading the source for softdep_sync_metadata(), I might believe this > could happen if the system tried to sync the block device for a softdep > filesystem before had synced all the files. > > I don't know why MFS would have an effect on this. The only two things > I can think of are either swapping to a file on a softdep filesystem, or > somehow the softupdates stuff thinks it should be active on the MFS > filesystems. What does /sbin/mount say about the mount flags on these > filesystems? Ah. MFS does this because it has synchronization issues getting to the backing store object (it's basically the VM/buffer cache coherency issue in SVR4). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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