Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:47:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: system hangs with soft updates Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809151846080.217-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19980915195829.A271@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Are you _SURE_ those are the tunefs(8) commands you typed? Are you also
sure that you weren't doing it to a slice in dev? AND if you did it to a
slice in /dev, are you _SURE_ that it was an uncooked device? (i.e.
r{wd,sd,da}0s1a)
Cheers,
Brian Feldman
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> I've been trying out the soft updates stuff, but my system seems to
> hang when I use it. What I've done:
>
> . linked the sources into /sys/ufs/ffs
> . added `options SOFTUPDATES' to /sys/i386/conf/SCIENTIA
> . config SCIENTIA
> . cd /sys/compile/SCIENTIA ; make depend ; make
> . cp kernel /kernel.soft
>
> Then I boot in single user mode from that kernel, do `tunefs -n enable
> /tmp ; mount /tmp', and when stuff is written to /tmp, the system just
> hangs a short while later and doesn't respond to anything (except
> Alt-F[123], but since I can't log in to those terminals, that isn't
> much help).
>
> eg, I did
>
> cd /tmp
> cp -Rp /etc .
>
> which worked fine, with practically no disk access, but then the disk
> light came on, stayed on, and I had to resort to that annoying little
> reset button. At least if the damn thing would crash it might give
> people some clues as to what the problem is...
>
> Is there some step I've missed? Has anyone else experienced similar
> problems? Is rebuilding the world likely to help?
>
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