Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:59:42 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inodes and soft update Message-ID: <20050922175942.GA2822@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050922094518.GA41762@peter.osted.lan> References: <20050922094518.GA41762@peter.osted.lan>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:45:18AM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > While trying to improve one of the tests from the kernel stress suite, > I have run into a strange problem. The program tries to use 90% of the > available inodes on a file system. This works fine where "soft update" > is disabled. However, when enabled I seem to run out of some resource > and the file system winds up corrupted (/tmp: unmount pending error: > blocks 0 files -83). I've seen that warning on dozens of machines including some running 5.3, but it seems to be harmless. > http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/inodes.html It's great to have a test that provokes it though. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFDMvEOWry0BWjoQKURAj5yAKC7soVt+91rgYEc12BLyaAJEwhzFgCWIwY7 np18oIrocDmDUJXLRGNqbg== =imZD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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