From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 14:12:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16856 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16825 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA08322; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:11:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA20959; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:11:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980927231152.21543@follo.net> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:11:52 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Terry Lambert , Kevin Street Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics References: <199809271957.MAA27397@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199809271957.MAA27397@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 07:57:05PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 07:57:05PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Here for your enjoyment are two softupdates panics. These are the first > > I've seen after months of softupdates use. They came shortly after I > > added `noatime' to two of my heavily used softupdates slices in > > /etc/fstab, but I have been in the habit of dynamically updating the > > mounts with noatime before make worlds with no problems. These happened > > in the middle of large port compiles. I've taken the noatime out of > > fstab and have survived a couple of passes through the same port build. > > > Do *NOT* use "noatime" in combination with soft updates! > > The dependencies for "noatime" are not switchable, and by enabling > it, you are breaking the dependency graph into seperate pieces! > > The bug here is that it didn't ignore your request for "noatime". Return error. noatime request a particular behaviour for the mount; ignoring that request on the assumption that people only do it for speed is IMO totally bogus. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message