Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:31:28 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: make install trick Message-ID: <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <199910052042.OAA04644@harmony.village.org>
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> I have soft updates enabled on a fast machine at work. make > installworld can fill up slash even though it has 15M free before the > install. I think this is a bug in softupdates that it doesn't reclaim > space quickly enough or in overflow situations. It's really not a bug, it's just a missing feature. There's no requirement that a filesystem reclaim empty space immediately. You really shouldn't be using fastupdates on nearly full filesystems -- it doesn't handle that situation particularly well. Once could even argue that it's preferable to force the make to abort than thrash the filesystem. Though a switch to allow it to thrash might be helpful in degenerate cases such as this. Fastupdates is great for the most common case -- a typical /usr or /home partition. That's where you care about write performance anyway. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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