Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:55:28 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: scottm@cs.ucla.edu (Scott Michel) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: John's latest round of changes Message-ID: <199803220055.TAA00257@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803212152.NAA00417@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> from Scott Michel at "Mar 21, 98 01:52:43 pm"
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Scott Michel said: > I've been running a CVSup'd kernel from yesterday, relatively trouble > free. I'd concur with John: it seems OK for the moment, but be prepared > to back out at a moment's notice. > > Do not use soft updates. That's still pretty unstable (although I've > yet to get a decent panic and traceback -- machine spontaneously > reboots under load.) > I have been finding numerous little problems with softupdates. Most of 'em are nits, but bad enough to crash the system at times. As I find them, I have been committing fixes. So far, they has been little interface problems regarding assumptions made by Kirk, and changes made in our usage. I haven't found any bugs in the softupdates code per-se lately though. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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