From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 16:11: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE21156A0 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:10:42 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Warner Losh" Cc: Subject: RE: make install trick Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:10:42 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bf0f86$d8d84670$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-reply-to: <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <000101bf0f78$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