From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 28 08:55:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10551 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:55:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10527; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:55:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17958; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:55:25 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199901281655.OAA17958@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: softupdates on / In-Reply-To: <199901271139.DAA65461@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi Asami at "Jan 27, 1999 3:39: 1 am" To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:55:25 -0200 (EDT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG CC: to hackers, as it may be better discussed there. #define quoting(Satoshi Asami) // Today I tried to remotely upgrade a machine set up by someone else. // Unfortunately softupdates was set in / and every make installworld // fails in /sbin as it runs out of space. // // I'd dare not take down the machine in the middle of installworld (even // though it's only upgrading from 3.0-current of about 3 weeks ago -- // I've seen weird things happen). I ended up writing a script doing a // "cd $dir; make install; sleep 10" in /usr/src/sbin and it's finally // chugging along. // // Is there some other way out of this? Also, a caution to others -- do // not set softupdates on /, you can get into a real mess. Is there a strong reason for softupdates be a tunefs option, instead of a mount option ? This could be easily solved by a mount -u -o async / make install mount -u -o softdep / Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message