Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:57:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, street@iname.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <199809272257.RAA28575@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <19980927231152.21543@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Sep 27, 98 11:11:52 pm"
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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. > I've gotta agree here - softupdates looked good for my palmtop that uses flash - noatime is essentially required for flash media. :) But is that what terry was saying? :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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