From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 23 23:33:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21678 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21647 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01191; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:33:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199802240733.CAA01191@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: softupdates patches.. commit requirements? In-Reply-To: <199802240728.BAA07979@friley585.res.iastate.edu> from Chris Csanady at "Feb 24, 98 01:28:26 am" To: ccsanady@friley585.res.iastate.edu (Chris Csanady) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:33:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message