From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 17 23:36:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16355 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 23:36:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from grape.carrier.kiev.ua (grape.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16290 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 23:35:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archer@grape.carrier.kiev.ua) Received: (from archer@localhost) by grape.carrier.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02653; Mon, 18 May 1998 09:35:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from archer) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 09:35:00 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander Litvin Message-Id: <199805180635.JAA02653@grape.carrier.kiev.ua> To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOTICE: Softupdates X-Newsgroups: grape.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: Organization: Lucky Grape User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980202 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you wrote: > just by chance.. you don't have a process running 'sync; sync' > trying to be "safe" do you? if so it's a bad idea.. BTW, why? Well, do you mean 'bad idea' because it slows the system, or because it may be a reason for crash? If the second, does it mean that sync is not safe with softupdates? > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Philippe Regnauld wrote: >> Julian Elischer writes: >> > >> > the inode. This is still a lot safer than the old 'sync' >> > code but it does indicate that people should not just 'trust it blindly'. >> >> Safer is a relative POV :-) >> It still barfs quite regularly over the fs when I run make >> world -- this is with SMP. >> >> More on this tonight (when I restore /usr/src for the Nth time :-) >> >> -- >> -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- >> «Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead >> IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?» -- Litvin Alexander No SIGNATURE available at this run-level To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message