Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:02:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: se@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is soft updates? Message-ID: <199904121502.QAA09405@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:16:42 %2B0200." <19990412111642.A304@dialup124.mi.uni-koeln.de>
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Are there any plans (Kirk/Julian/Louqi?) to fix this so that
softupdates can do just-in-time syncing ?
Although this has never hurt me, I perceive it to be a big problem.
> On 1999-04-08 09:54 -0400, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 jfesler@gigo.com wrote:
> > > 3: How do we tunefs "/" ?
> >
> > Even with the above confidence, I would never tune my root partition to
> > have softupdates.
> >
> > That 'no-no' buzzer goes on in the back of my head whenever I think about
> > doing that.
>
> Just a warning to people who still think they might
> want to mount "/" with soft updates enabled:
>
> Be sure to have PLENTY of free space in your root
> partition, if you are ever going to "make world".
>
> You'll need at least 16MB free in order to install
> the binaries in /bin and /sbin (and the system will
> be unhappy without them ;-)
>
> Soft updates causes the files that are replaced to
> keep their disk blocks, until all the meta information
> on disk points to the new versions, and the install
> command seems to further double this by creating
> temporary files ...
>
> Regards, STefan
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