From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 17 10:41:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16896 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 10:41:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16865 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 10:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13786; Sun, 17 May 1998 10:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd013783; Sun May 17 17:31:43 1998 Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 10:31:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Philippe Regnauld cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOTICE: Softupdates In-Reply-To: <19980517170908.16850@deepo.prosa.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA16879 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG just by chance.. you don't have a process running 'sync; sync' trying to be "safe" do you? if so it's a bad idea.. On Sun, 17 May 1998, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > > > > the inode. This is still a lot safer than the old 'sync' > > code but it does indicate that people should not just 'trust it blindly'. > > Safer is a relative POV :-) > It still barfs quite regularly over the fs when I run make > world -- this is with SMP. > > More on this tonight (when I restore /usr/src for the Nth time :-) > > -- > -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- > «Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead > IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?» > - S. Kelly Bootle > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message