Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:49:43 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick Message-ID: <99Oct6.084624est.40345@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org> References: <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org>
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On 1999-Oct-06 07:42:39 +1000, Warner Losh wrote: >Nearly full? It is a 32M file system with 15M free. That's not >nearly full. The problem is that the update rate is faster than the >softupdate code can deal with. Running sync between each install >shows that this is a bug. As Ollivier Robert pointed out, it is a known problem. Kirk says it's non-trivial to fix (though I'm sure he'll welcome your patches :-). The suggested work-around is not to run softupdates on root. In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the lack of softupdates should not be a problem. Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5982 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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