From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 1:22: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shark.harmonic.co.il (jupiter.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B3737B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by shark.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09112; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:21:22 +0200 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:21:22 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Donn Miller Cc: Matt Dillon , Garrett Wollman , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com Subject: Re: Any outstanding soft-updates or FFS bugs (matching this description)? In-Reply-To: <3A1212BC.F648B2E9@cvzoom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > Matt Dillon wrote: > > > I've had filesystems blow up under test when filling a parition > > with softupdates turned on. The most recent time was last > > weekend while I was testing low-memory stuff. > > It would be nice if the softupdates code (or maybe other kernel code > could do this) could detect when filesystem space is running low, and > kick into some "fail-safe" mode. For example, when the free space drops > below 15%, softupdates could automatically shut itself off, and then > turn itself back on when the free space rises above 20% (hysteresis). I don't know if it's possible (I mean, how hard it's to implement), but 15% of 60Gb it's a lot of space (for example). Just my 0.02$ --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message