From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 9:58:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.twenty4help.nu (ns1.twenty4help.nu [62.108.207.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792DF37B417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) (authenticated) by luke.twenty4help.nu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fB7I3sl77831; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:03:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C110358.9020505@rambo.simx.org> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:58:48 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ceri Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_mfs with softupdate generates panic References: <3C10F786.1070703@rambo.simx.org> <20011207174605.GA9762@rhadamanth> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ceri wrote: >On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:08:22PM +0100, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > >>Has anyone used memory disks, with softupdates enabled, succesfully? >> > >There isn't any point. > What do you mean no point? I agree, the performance gained of using Soft Updates on a memory disk is probably small, but as I mentioned, this was done purely for performance, hence the noatime and async flags. Im by no means a filesystem expert, but Soft Updates should improve performance on memory disks as well as regular harddrives, right? > >This does sound like a bug though. >I'll test it myself at some point when I can afford a kernel panic. > Please let me know what happens, Im very curious to see if this is a bug or just my machines. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message