From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 17 00:41:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18588 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 00:41:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-35.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18582 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 00:41:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA02973; Sun, 17 May 1998 00:41:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 00:41:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Eivind Eklund cc: Julian Elischer , current Subject: Re: Soft update vs noatime In-Reply-To: <19980517005409.53106@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 1998 at 12:06:59PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > you're confusing noatime and async.. > > Not really - I seem to remember _both_ creating problems. However, I can't > find any messages that refer to this, so I might have remembered wrongly. For what it's worth a recent kernel borked on a make world. It's a UP P5-166, root disk mounted normally, second disk w/ two swap files mounted noatime and softupdates. Next time I'll see if I can get some kinda crash dump. It was one of those not quite immediate panic type things, but switching VTs took > 30 seconds.. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message