From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 2 18:47:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A328B37B416; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:47:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB32lrU112576; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:47:53 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200112021023.fB2ANMi91290@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200112021023.fB2ANMi91290@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:47:51 -0500 To: Matthew Dillon From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates in default install on -CURRENT Cc: Robert Watson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:23 AM -0800 12/2/01, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I agree. / is still a problem - I have softupdates enabled on > my 128M / partitions and if I 'make install' a kernel twice in > a row the filesystem runs out of space and the second install > fails. But that's the only time I've ever managed to run a > softupdates filesystem out of space. If we incorporated a couple > of 'sync's (like eight of them) at the beginning of a kernel or > world install target it would probably be safe enough. Actually, I wrote some changes to the way 'installkernel' works in -stable which makes it MUCH less likely to run into trouble on a softupdates partition (among other improvements). The thing is, it would make a lot of sense to have those same changes in -current, and I haven't had the time to try rewriting them. (I did compare the relevant makefiles in -stable and -current, and they are different enough that I'd have to think about how to change it...) Let me stumble thru to the end of the semester here, and then I should have some time to revisit those changes. At that point I'll try to get something together for the makefiles in both branches. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message