Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:01:14 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>, brian@Awfulhak.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How stable is soft updates? Message-ID: <199904131001.LAA01705@stevenson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Peter Jeremy's message of Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:34:38 %2B1000
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> This has been raised with Kirk by several different people (including > myself). His short response is "fixing it is hard" and he recommends > not using softupdates on filesystems that don't have about a minutes > worth of free space (ie root). How suitable is soft updates for a news partition? Obviously the write performance is just what you want, but I seem to remember hearing about problems with expiring because free space doesn't appear immediately. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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