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Date:      Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:11:52 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Softupdates panics
Message-ID:  <19980927231152.21543@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199809271957.MAA27397@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 07:57:05PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809260144460.9118-100000@kstreet.interlog.com> <199809271957.MAA27397@usr05.primenet.com>

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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.

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