From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 23 0:55:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.plaut.de (ns.plaut.de [194.99.75.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B078D37B8B6 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:55:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@nihil.plaut.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.plaut.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id JAA74675; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:54:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@nihil.plaut.de) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by nihil.plaut.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00783; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:54:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@nihil.plaut.de) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:54:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Reifenberger To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Chris Dillon , FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.h ffs_softdep.c In-Reply-To: <00Jun23.075254est.115312@border.alcanet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote: ... > This has bitten a number of people who have turned softupdates on for > their root filesystems - and had installworld die. > There is a workaround for this: Before running installworld start a shellscript in background with: while true; do; sync; sleep 2; done; this prevents my root from filling up. Bye! ---- Michael Reifenberger ^.*Plaut.*$, IT, R/3 Basis, GPS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message