Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:31:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: street@iname.com (Kevin Street) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, street@iname.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <199809272131.OAA29999@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <13838.43349.110576.318091@kstreet.interlog.com> from "Kevin Street" at Sep 27, 98 05:20:02 pm
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> Well, this certainly started an interesting series on noatime and SU. > If I could just review the score so far, we have: > > 1 for "It's a Bad Thing" later retracted > 2 for "I've never heard this and I do it, you must be thinking of async" > 1 for "It's superstition, noatime and SU are fine" > 2 for "It likely triggers an access change that exposes a SU bug" > 1 for "It breaks your dependency graph into pieces" > (perhaps I should count this as 2 for "Bad Thing") > > I think we need a decision from the referee. Well, feel free to ask Kirk. My claim that it's a bad thing came from a discussion of noatime and Soft Updates with Kirk and Julian in Julian's cube several months ago. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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