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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:33:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        ccsanady@friley585.res.iastate.edu (Chris Csanady)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates patches.. commit requirements?
Message-ID:  <199802240733.CAA01191@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199802240728.BAA07979@friley585.res.iastate.edu> from Chris Csanady at "Feb 24, 98 01:28:26 am"

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Chris Csanady said:
> 
> >> What requirements need be satisfied before the softupdate hooks and
> >> mods can be checked into -current.?
> >
> >Do they work with ccds yet?  They should at least be fairly
> >non-pathological with whatever filesystems one might wish to use them
> >for, but beyond that I'd say go for it!
> 
> Yep, they appear to work now. :)  I have been using them for a couple
> days off and on, and although I have had the occasional lock up, I
> think it is not the ccd's fault anymore.  (Before, it would lock up
> when I tried to log in in X, or panic after some amount of disk io
> on the console.  How do you tell what happened if you arae running
> X anyways?!  This is quite frustrating.)
> 
Some of the softupdate patches don't do the right thing for FreeBSD's
specfs filesystem nodes.  (devvp type things.)  We cannot handle locking
VBLK nodes very well, and I think that is the reason for the hangs.

I'll pass along some mods to whomever commits the softdupates hooks.

-- 
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.

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