Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:10:42 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: <current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: make install trick Message-ID: <000001bf0f86$d8d84670$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> "David > Schwartz" writes: > : 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. > > Nearly full? It is a 32M file system with 15M free. That's not > nearly full. Whether that qualifies as 'nearly full' or not depends upon the update rate. > The problem is that the update rate is faster than the > softupdate code can deal with. I would say a filesystem that adds new files in an amount close to its free space is nearly full. > Running sync between each install > shows that this is a bug. sync is supposed to be idempotent. I think anybody reasonable familiar with softupdates understands what 'sync' does in this context. It's not a bug because it is documented behavior done for a specific reason. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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