From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 6 10:27: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB2314C2F for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id TAA10265; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:26:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id TAA12607; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:26:41 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:25:29 +0200 To: Alfred Perlstein , peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: make install trick Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:22 PM +0200 1999/10/6, Brad Knowles wrote: > Is there something fundamental I'm missing here? I thought > that this sort of thing was taught in SysAdmin 101.... My sincerest (and public) apologies to Alfred. There is something pretty fundamental that I was missing -- this problem is not restricted to just a softupdates filesystem filling up, and if it's the root filesystem then there can be a crash. No, this problem appears to be that if *any* softupdates filesystem fills up, it can crash the system. Now that I understand what it was I was missing, I'm much more reluctant to use softupdates in general, at least until this problem is fixed. Thanks for understanding, and helping me to more clearly understand the problem! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message