From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 4 12:59:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19960 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:59:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from merlin.rz.tu-clausthal.de (merlin.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.1.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19944 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:59:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rk@merlin.rz.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from rk@localhost) by merlin.rz.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA03817; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 21:59:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 21:59:14 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199812042059.VAA03817@merlin.rz.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size From: Ronald Kuehn X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #124 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In freebsd-current you write: > > dev=0x20404, bno = 13, bsize = 8192, size = 8192, fs = /var > > panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size > > > > The /var filesystem does not have soft updates enabled. > > I got a dump, but not from a debugging kernel. > > > > [ current as of Dec 2 ] > Just wondering, why are people running softupdates and non-softupdates on > the same box, or just plain not using softupdates? > I thought that it is as reliable as regular mounts and faster? Or are > there issues that I haven't noticed? > Or are you guys testing for the FreeBSD project? > -Alfred On small filesystems, softupdates has some problems here. If I do a "make installworld", it breaks with "file system full" errors. It doesn't recover the free space on the filesystem (from the removed files) quickly enough. So the filesystem seems full. Bye, Ronald -- * The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message