Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:42:32 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, kvedulv@kvedulv.de, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r219667 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit Message-ID: <201103210342.p2L3gWM9057768@chez.mckusick.com> In-Reply-To: <4D8662B0.8000705@FreeBSD.org>
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> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:25:20 -0700 > From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> > To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> > CC: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, > Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>, > svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, > kvedulv@kvedulv.de > Subject: Re: svn commit: r219667 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit > > On 03/20/2011 09:22, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > I fear it's still a bit premature for enable SU+J by default. Rather > > recently I was told about a SU+J filesystems lost after a panic > > that happend after snapshotting it (report CC'ed, maybe he can > > provide some more details) and I'm pretty sure I've seen the problem > > described in PR 149022 also after the potential fix mentioned in its > > feedback. > > +1 > > I tried enabling SU+J on my /var (after backing up of course) and after > a panic random files were missing entirely. Not the last updates to > those files, the whole file, and many of them had not been written to in > days/weeks/months. > > With all due respect to the hard work that went into the code, I would > be very uncomfortable with enabling it by default at this point. > > > Doug With all due respect, how can we fix things that nobody reports? If you have a problem, let us know about it. And of course, we need something more specific than the above. Kirk McKusick
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